Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  He rereke, ko Emily Dickinson i ora i te oranga haumaru o te wahine rangatira, i te taone iti o Amherst, Massachusetts. He auaha, he pākiki, he ātaahua hoki ōna waiata. Ko tana mahi he rereke mo tona waa, a he iti noa iho i whakaputaina i tona wa. He maha o ana whiti e noho ana i runga i te kaupapa o te mate, i te nuinga o nga wa he mea kino. Ko te tuatahi, "No te mea kaore i taea e au te whakamutu mo te Mate", ka timata, "I mutu ia mo au". Ko te whakatuwheratanga o tetahi atu o nga waiata a Dickinson e takaro ana ki tana tuunga wahine i roto i te hapori e whakahaeretia ana e nga tane me te kaitito kaore i mohiotia: "Kahore au i te tangata! Ko wai koe? / He tangata noa koe?" Ko te whiti o Amerika i eke ki tona tihi i te timatanga-ki-waenganui o te rautau 20, me nga kaituhi rongonui penei i a Wallace Stevens me tana Harmonium (1923) me The Auroras of Autumn (1950), TS Eliot me tana The Waste Land (1922), Robert Frost me tana Raki o Boston (1914) me New Hampshire (1923), Hart Crane me ana Whare Ma (1926) me te huringa epic, Te Piriti (1930), Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams me tana epic poem mo tona kainga whanau o New Jersey, Paterson, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay me Langston Hughes, hei taapiri ki etahi atu.  Pātai: I noho a Emily Dickinson ki hea?
Ko Amherst, Massachusetts