4B+DeNatale

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Emily Dickinson uses personification and punctuation in __This Is My Letter to the World__ to express the theme that if someone is judged, they should be judged truthfully. Throughout the poem, Dickinson personifies Nature to display how she compares and relates herself to nature. Dickinson says that "Her Message is committed To Hands [she] cannot see" (Dickinson 5). Dickinson personifies nature to display how she differentiates herself from nature and believes they are opposites. Even though she wants to be like nature, she does not understand nature's actions and ideas. This connects back to how Dickinson believes that even though she is being judged, she is being judged by herself and Nature truthfully. Dickinson also uses hyphens throughout the poem to display emphasis on certain words and ideas. One example is when Dickinson says "For love of Her--Sweet--countrymen--" (Dickinson 7). Dickinson displays here how although nature judges her "countrymen", including Emily herself, nature still loves them and sees them as good people. The hyphens throughout the problem consistently put emphasis on this theme in order to make it appear in the poem.


 * Return to Sender**

This is my letter to You Because you deserve It -- You are no different from Her -- Although you might think So

Your messages have been Shared To Hands You cannot See -- Nature could not agree More She -- judged -- Positively

-Peter DeNatale