XV by Emily Dickinson
The poem XV or fifteen, written by Emily Dickinson, has many weird and creepy aspects in it. "I Know Some Lonely Houses off the Road" or “XV” by Emily Dickinson is a poem about thieves robbing a house. Emily Dickinson knows the ideal houses that can be robbed. Emily Dickinson makes us feel as we are in the situation that is occurring, which would a robbery. She describe a house that is easy to steal from which has “windows hanging low, inviting to a portico” (Dickinson) meaning that there is a low window and the robber has an easy access to the roof. She hints that it would be more successful to rob an elderly couple because they wouldn’t know if someone was ever in their home due to their age. She describes how a robbery may take place and what the robbers may steal, such as "Tankard, or spoon, earring, or stone, a watch, some ancient brooch" (Dickinson). This poem is a typical Dickinson work in some ways, but it is different from her usual work. This poem is different from Emily’s other work she uses more descriptive words to describe how the robbers creep through and search the elderly’s home. Emily also uses personification, “While the old couple, just astir, think that the sunrise left the door ajar.”
Two Romanticism examples from this poem would be Emily Dickinson's use of imagination and intuition. Emily uses imagination because she makes us imagine that we are actually watching the robbery as it takes place. She also uses the sentence “While the old couple, just astir, think that the sunrise left the door ajar!” (Dickinson). This is an example of sunrise since sunrises cannot, as we know, open doors by itself. Another Romantic aspect that Emily includes is intuition. She uses intuition by stating that the old couple went with their gut and thought that the sunrise opened their doors while in reality it was the robbers. Also, she