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The article provides literary criticism to poems of Emily Dickinson and influence of poet R.W. Emerson on his writing. Topics discusses include exploration by feminist critics on social powerlessness in Dickinson's poetry, structure and distinctive language of Dickinson's poems, connection between Daoism, Chan Buddhism, and the works of both R.W. Emerson and Dickinson, Dickinson's exploration of cultivation, meditation, and spontaneous action.

A literary criticism of the book "The Unicorn" by Iris Murdoch is presented. Topics include the crisis of interpretation in the allegorical reading of the book, "The Unicorn" is stated to be an amalgam of various genres and allusive references to other texts, that turn out to be self-conflicting in purpose.