oposals or if the poet had simply been disappointed in love is not known (Knapp 148). However, as missing details are apparent in Dickinson's correspondence, much can be patched up from her writings on subjects such as death, religion, love, and dread whereas the lyrics that characteristically withhold evidence of the events that precipitated them also suggest narratives of religious searching and of romantic love reciprocated, but unfulfilled.
             Digging her heels into the side of the proverbial social stallion, Emily Di
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