ntellect at an early age. Betina L. Knapp said, "So powerful was her imagination, so repressed her instincts and sexual desires, that her poetry – a bridge between her inner and outer worlds- took on the luster of the life she longed for but did not live" (134). Much of what Knapp refers to as 'powerful' and 'imaginative' are seen in "Unloved I Love, Unwept I Weep" where she shares in the first stanza of the poem:
             Vain is this anguish, fixed and deep,
             Vainer desires or means of bliss....
             The manner in which she uses opposing sentiments to make
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