"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind— As if my Brain had split— I tried to match it— Seam by Seam— But could not make it fit.The thought behind, I strove to joinUnto the thought before— But Sequence ravelled out of SoundLike Balls— upon a Floor."
Emily Dickinson was an American poet whose compressed language and formal experimentation transformed lyric poetry. Although only a small number of her poems were published during her lifetime, her posthumous work made her one of the most influential poets in American literature. Her poetry explores mortality, faith, nature, and interior life.