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Analysing 'One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted'
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Analysing 'One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted' by Emily Dickinson, an A grade exam style answer.
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‘One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted’Explore how Emily Dickinson presents an unstable mind in ‘One need not be a Chamber - to be
Haunted’ and make connections with one or two other poems from your collection.
You should consider Dickinson’s use of poetic and stylistic techniques and significant literary or other
relevant contexts.
In this poem, the focus is strongly on re-creating an intense inner experience through powerful,
often physical imagery, to show a haunted mind is worse that a haunted house. She highlights that
there is no escape if a disturbance comes from within.
Dickinson establishes a dark tone by beginning with the premise “One need not be a Chamber – to
be Haunted”. Dickinson extends this spatial metaphor to the brain, commenting with the concrete
nouns on its ‘corridors’ and it’s likeness to a ‘house’ or a ‘chamber’, perhaps referencing the visual
similarity to the structure of the brain with its folds and synapse. The metaphysical aspect is made
explicit when she states that these surpass “material space”. Breaking with her favoured hymn
meter (alternate lines of tetrameter and trimeter), she opts for a less predictable form in which the
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