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Mill, Jackson notes, finds the conceit that the particular is at once the universal to be a<br />
problem. Mill contrasts lyricism with the eloquence of observably addressed direct-<br />
speech that enacts change and makes a difference.<br />
As it pertains to Dickinson, Jackson asserts that we have made Dickinson's<br />
writing into lyric expression after this modern interpretation of the genre. Dickinson is<br />
universally acknowledged for her autonomy. We have been used to reading Dickinson's<br />
work with an acute concern for hearing reflexivity and formal self-awareness or, for<br />
reading the ways she addresses a universal theme through the conceit of a private and<br />
particularly idiomatic speech concerned to conceal any determinative singularities that<br />
might implicate Dickinson herself or any determined empirical reader. In the medallion<br />
chapter - "5. Dickinson's Misery" - Jackson does a close reading of a poem first published<br />
in 1945, and perhaps never sent in Dickinson's lifetime:<br />
On the World you colored<br />
Morning painted<br />
rose -<br />
Idle his<br />
Vermillion<br />
Aimless crept<br />
Stole<br />
the Glows<br />
Over Realms<br />
Of Orchards<br />
I the Day<br />
before<br />
Conquered<br />
with the Robin -<br />
Misery, how fair<br />
Till your<br />
wrinkled Finger<br />
shored the<br />
pushed<br />
sun away<br />
Midnight's awful Pattern<br />
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