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media type="custom" key="24534926" Emily Dickinson uses dramatic pauses to demonstrate transcendentalist ideas in "This Is My Letter to the World". She states how she would turn to nature when she needed help. For example, she states, "The simple News that Nature told-", meaning that she would rely on Nature rather than the people in a civilization. She continuously faces the differences between the complexity of society versus the simplicity of nature throughout her life. In the first line she states, "This is my letter to the World", meaning that she wants to share with everyone her ideas regarding her simple lifestyle. Dickinson also emphasizes line breaks to help the reader understand the poem. The poem is in the form of a letter which is written one-to-many rather than one-to-one. Emily writes to the world although they do not recognize her because she never stept outside her house. She wishes to pass on her lessons that nature taught her to everyone else.

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