1. 5 It was not frost, for on my flesh

15 And could not breathe without a key,

17 When everything that ticked has stopped

19 Or grisly frosts, first autumn morns,

21 But most like chaos, stopless, cool,

22 Without a chance, or spar,23 Or even a report of land

To express her own pain by my opinion, or pain of the main character from this poem Emili Dickinson uses a different techniques and some of the rhetorical figures. Imagery, negations, metaphors, and different meanings of the words are all used to demonstrate that part

In philosophy, one cannot describe chaos or God using affirmative words; one has to say "chaos is not, God is not." Likewise in the poem, Emily Dickinson uses negations rather than affirmative statements to describe her anguish as an intangible entity. She does not even use a word such as "agony," or "grief" anywhere in the poem in order to emphasize that her feeling cannot be condensed into a simple word. Instead, she describes the chaos she feels by using negations of opposing forces, "it was not fire it was not heat," and then saying that she feels them all at once. Emily Dickinson uses imagery to make the shock she feels more vivid to the reader. Her life "was fitted on a frame and [she] could not breathe without a key." This metaphor reminds the reader of the stifling feeling in the throat and gasping for air, when one sob violently but tears don't come. She does not have the "key." She cannot help herself because she has lost everything, the "key" must come from somewhere else. "And 'twas like midnight some when everything that ticked has stopped and space stares all around." This is like

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