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Emily dickinsons Poetry     In Emily Dickinsons Poetry she has a enceinte interest with brief encounters and transition states of mind.     Dickinsons depicts many of her brief encounters in great detail. Even if it was only a passing moment, Dickinson does not omit any smell of her sightings. An example of a passing moment which she develops into great detail would be Dickinsons first sighting of the bird in A bird came down the walk Here ED expands on the birds actions and movements. Her description of the bird in career takes up many lines. Instead of simply telling us the bird took flight, she elaborates on the beauty and grace of his flight. The actions of the birds are awe - inspiring to her.     And rowed him softer home Than oars river basin the ocean.....     Dickinsons attitude to passing moments is quite complex, as she does not interpret them simply as a passing moment but an extraordinary descriptive event.   &nbs p some other example of a passing moment would be in A narrow fellow in the grass In this poem Dickinsons keen notification of passing moments is understandably observed. She notices every movement of the snake even though his movements are very sudden and fast. Initially the snake is characterized as transient or passing swiftly. These movements appear to be very sudden but Dickinson goes into more detail and as a result the essential nature of the snake is clearly defined.     The grass divides as with a comb Whip lash wrinkled and was gone     The snakes brief passing seems much longer to Dickinson whereas it was a very sprightly movement. By using he word Whiplash to describe the snakes actions we can see how sudden the experience must have been. She tells us how she was frightened to the encumbrance of her being     Without a tighter breathing And Zero at the bone     Dickinson does not treat this as a quick passing moment but an experience, which she elaborates on. This aspect of her work also occurs in I felt a funeral in my brain An example of this would be her stream of consciousness which is clearly illustrated with Dickinson s pressing repetition of And