Poetry for Students, Volume 35

I’m Nobody! Who are you? (by Emily Dickinson).......... I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU? you?’’ was included inThe Complete Poems of Emi ...

Massachusetts, to Emily Norcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson. The poet was one of three children: William Austin (1829–1895), ...

Shortly after Emily Dickinson’s death, her sister Lavinia discovered nearly 1,800 poems hid- den away in the poet’s bedroom, som ...

Stanza 2 In the second stanza, the speaker comments on what it must be like to be a somebody. She laughs at people of rank and p ...

this two-level society of somebodies and nobod- ies, the speaker identifies with the nobodies. She means that she is not publicl ...

first clause is clarified by the one that immedi- ately follows it. Commas identify items in a list as parallel units. Commas al ...

in his inaugural address on March 4, 1865, he affirmed his commitment to healing the nation’s wounds without penalizing the Sout ...

Emily Dickinson did not go next door to meet the lecturer. Critical Overview. Emily Dickinson’s importance as a poet was appreci ...

Thomas H. Johnson’s celebrated three-volume variorum edition,The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Including Variant Readings C ...

and risk the following question: ‘‘Are you nobody too?’’ And this other person may nod affirma- tively. If they are not quiet, t ...

on the listener, asserted herself uninvited and for the moment controls the listener’s attention. And where two conspire in mutu ...

privacy, the seduction of publicity. Implicit in the act of writing and again in the act of preserving one’s writing is the desi ...

part or not. The apophatic tradition, I maintain, whether directly or indirectly, influences Dickin- son’s reflections on the li ...

least a central axis of Dickinson’s poetic modus operandi. My contention is that it will prove profitable to read Emily Dickinso ...

and their doing so is liable to give rise to certain distortions and confusions. For example, Perl- off’s idea that Dickinson di ...

This recess of speech darkly backgrounds almost everything in human life, including everyday emo- tions like gratitude. It lies ...

Nor its infrequency (F 1476; J 1452) Such thoughts that defy comprehension and articulation seem to be ‘‘native,’’ familiar, as ...

According to this philosophical outlook, which accentuates the theological inspiration of Plato’s thinking as oriented towards a ...

dimension of beauty, enchantment, and rapture, exclaiming,... However, this spell is itself but the sign of something yet more i ...

was preaching of compensations, of friendship, of society, and of the Oversoul. Emily Dickinson has by no means lost her freshne ...