Emily Dickinson1830-1886

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This is my letter to the World,That never wrote to Me--

The simple News that Nature told--With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see--

For love of Her– Sweet– countrymen--Judge tenderly-- of Me

Slant Rhymes

Rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical.

Deer and Door

Years and Yours

Eyes and Light

Poems to Look At

• Pg. 326 “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”

• Pg. 325 “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Die”

• Pg. 324 “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church”

• Pg. 317 “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”

• Pg. 317 “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”

• Pg. 320 “If You Were Coming in the Fall”