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a study in the very small
Emily Dickinson
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Her Life in Amherst

• 1830 -1886
• Highly educated
• Respected family
• Hobbies gardening and cooking
• Keen observer of nature
• Wrote over 1700 poems

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Ill tell you how the sun rose, --
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
That must have been the sun.
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But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while.
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominic in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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Benefits of ReadingEmily Dickinson
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Life as a Recluse

• the Homestead
• Life of isolation
• Keen writer of letters
• Poetry reflects
• Preoccupation with Death
• Small moments of inspiration
• Her loneliness

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• Im Nobody! Who are you?
• Are you -- Nobody -- too?
• Then theres a pair of us?
• Dont tell! Theyd advertise -- you know!

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• How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!

How public -- like a Frog --
To tell ones name -- the livelong June --
To an admiring Bog!
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Called Back
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