mother.
             "As a teenager, Emily Dickinson identified with her mother, but as an adult she needed to disengage herself psychologically from her"(Pollak 37).
             "The soul has moments of Escape-/when bursting all the doors-/ she dances like a bomb, abroad/ And swings upon the hours" (Dickinson 250).
             These lines depict the soul's transitory escape. What Dickinson attempts to show us is that the escape is simply transitory, and that the soul must return to the body, back to the confined space.
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