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Emily Dickinson and Modern Communication

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Today’s society is categorized for its fiery use of social media. As one looks at the use of smartphones, it is clearly seen that this device is not only utilized for communication but for all earthly matters, both the important and insignificant. Mundane ‘get-togethers’ such as: dining and acquainting, or even having a cup of coffee have all been blown out of its usual proportion. In the past this was not a likelihood. Individuals were brought together through the use of older devices, some that we would now consider to be relics, artifacts that are suitable solely for museums. Dickinson, having been a great poetess and a bright observant of social interaction (although she refrained from such an act) realized that society’s own communication, even back in the 19th century, was subject to deterioration. She realized convivial and sharing with one another would never be the same. Dickinson says: “There are those who are shallow intentionally and only profound by accident.” As human beings, we have often been struck with profound words. Those words that flew out the mouth of an eloquent being came to us like lightning, and struck our core greatly. More often than not, society’s leaders are those eloquent beings who captivate us with their tenacity and bravado. However, we tend to focus more on their presentation, on the act itself, instead of focusing on the actual words, their real meaning. This is where we become the sheep, following blindly and oriented purely by an elegant assembling of words rather than its literal significance. At this point, if we do not give off an immediate response as a whole, we may be at mercy to no other than “Time’s compassion,” as Dickinson states again in another work of hers. What moves the reader in Dickinson’s poetry is her natural, god given talent for imagery. In another work of hers she says, “A not admitting of the Wound / Until it grew so wide / That all my / Life had En

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