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Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1960. 

Electra Medea Emerson s Essays Emily Dickinson Poems Emma... 

This poem, by Emily Dickinson, is a sort of riddle. Depending on your life experiences, the answer may be immediately clear, or it may very well not be. Look closely for clues in the language. 

It s true that poems often have two levels—one literal, one figurative. The next poem, also by Emily Dickinson, is full of images from nature. In exploring the second level of meaning, consider the speaker s attitude, revealed especially through surprising and jarring word choices. 

Although anxiety disorders were officially recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1980, reports of the occurrence of anxiety disorders can be found throughout recorded history. Such prominent figures as Isaac Newton, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, and Sigmund Freud all suffered symptoms that would now be classified as an anxiety disorder. 

While only seven of Emily Dickinson s poems were published in her lifetime, she wrote 1800 over... 

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson... 

We lead off with these quotes because they illustrate two observations. First, if one judges by the number of references to chemistry in Western literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it would appear that chemical literacy was once more common. From Arthur Conan Doyle to Emily Dickinson, many of these earlier authors displayed a friendly acquaintance with the principles of chemistry and assumed a familiarity on the part of their readers, too. Such allusions to chemistry, unfortu-... 

Original Neither Herman Melville, the inspired novelist, nor Miss Emily Dickinson, the spinster poetess of Amherst, gained fame or fortune in their lifetimes. 

Almost a mirror image of its neighbor Northampton to the southwest, Amherst is the home of two selective liberal arts colleges (U Mass and Amherst College), an abundance of new and used bookstores, classic architecture, liberal politics and cheap eats. It is noted in history books as the home of the poet Emily Dickinson, who lived a reclusive life here in the brick house built by her grandfather. Her home may be visited at 280 Main Street. 

I close by quoting another voice from Massachusetts. One hundred and twenty years ago Emily Dickinson expressed the idea as follows (18) ... 

Dickinson, E. Poem 108. In The Poems of Emily Dickinson Johnson... 

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Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 3 vols. (Cambridge, MA The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955), poem 963. 

Tbe Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson edited by Wendy Martin... 

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