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By focussing on three poems by Emily Dickinson, this paper shows that linguistic analysis based on the compositional interpretation at the level of Logical Form helps us establish a clearer picture of notoriously difficult poetic texts. At the same time, poems which provide us with borderline cases of interpretability help us see clearer the limits of adaptability within the grammatical system. Ambiguity...