Dashes in Emily Dickinson's selected poems

Abstract EN

Punctuation has a vital role in having a true interpretation of any text.

It is a linguistic form which is connected with stylistics.

Stylistics probes the aesthetic spots which are created by linguistic methods to reveal the writer views.

Dickinson uses dash as a tool to add extra meaning besides the word.

Dash is in need to be read and understood by the readers.

Though dash creates a certain problem in the poem, it achieves various benefits of reflecting the sighs, emotion and loss without writing words.

This research analyzes dash as a punctuation mark, which appears widely in Dickinson's poetry.