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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson. By Brett Robertson. A B C B D E F E G H I H. N ATURE, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child, The feeblest or the waywardest,— Her admonition mild In forest and the hill By traveller is heard,

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Emily Dickinson

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  1. Emily Dickinson By Brett Robertson

  2. A B C B D E F E G H I H • NATURE, the gentlest mother, • Impatient of no child, • The feeblest or the waywardest,— • Her admonition mild • In forest and the hill • By traveller is heard, • Restraining rampant squirrel • Or too impetuous bird. • How fair her conversation, • A summer afternoon,— • Her household, her assembly; • And when the sun goes down J K L K M N O N P Q R Q Her voice among the aisles Incites the timid prayer Of the minutest cricket, The most unworthy flower. When all the children sleep She turns as long away As will suffice to light her lamps; Then, bending from the sky, With infinite affection And infiniter care, Her golden finger on her lip, Wills silence everywhere.

  3. The rhyme scheme of that poem is listed beside each line. The entire poem is an example of personification , referring to nature as ‘the gentlest mother.’ • The theme of the poem is that ‘mother nature’ exists in all things, and is caring and kind to travelers.

  4. Bio • Dickinson was born in 1830 and died in 1886. She was born in Massachusetts to a successful family, by was a recluse during her early years. She remained this way throughout her life, some of her greatest friends never having seen her outside of her room.

  5. Quote • “Every great poet writes in a voice that is unmistakably his or hers. When we hear the high, tragic diction of Homer or Yeats, or the urgent but colloquial voice of Dante, who speaks to us in The Inferno as if we saw him on the street just yesterday, or the boisterous, almost overly familiar diction of Walt Whitman, we don’t need to know the poet’s name to know who it is speaking. Emily Dickson’s voice is equally unmistakable.” • - John Barr, President of the Poetry Foundation

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