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Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. She was raised in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was known as a very intelligent student. Dickinson’s father was a very strict religious man. He refused to let his children read “inappropriate” materials. This caused her to have an issue with the authority of men. When Dickinson was grown her mother fell ill. She and her sister went to take care of her. That same year her father died. Emily then stopped going out into public. She still kept up her social life writing letters to friends. While she was in the house she wrote 1,700 poems. When she died in 1886 she asked her sister to burn all the letters and poems she had written. Lavina, her sister, ignored all of Emily’s wishes and published the poems. She is now known worldwide for her strange, yet amazing, poems. |||||| __**If I Can Stop One Heart:**__ // "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." //
 * Emily Dickinson** [[image:dickinson.jpg width="276" height="278"]]
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I thought this poem was very good.**
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 * It was inspiring. It made you feel that if you helped others you would be helping yourself.**

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|| **__We Outgrow Love:__** // "We outgrow love like other things And put it in the drawer, Till it an antique fashion shows Like costumes grandsires wore." //

**__PERSONAL REACTION:__ I thought this poem was really good. It has a deeper meaning than you’d expect it to. I****t tells that love is something that we like, and then when we “outgrow” it, we forget about it…. Then it becomes an antique.**

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|| //"A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
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And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass, And then hopped sidewise to the wall To let a beetle pass.

He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all abroad,-- They looked like frightened beads, I thought; He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious, I offered him a crumb, And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean, Too silver for a seam, Or butterflies, off banks of noon, Leap, splashless, as they swim."// I thought this poem was really uplifting. It had a happy vibe to it. **
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She uses similes and imagery in this poem.// **
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//__RHYME SCHEME:__ This is a external rhyme scheme:// //ABCB// || __** A Drop Fell:​ **__ //"A drop fell on the apple tree Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh.

A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be!

The dust replaced in hoisted roa The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung.

The breezes brought dejected And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away."//

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 * I thought this poem was exceptionally good. It's a look on the good things of a rainy day. How the birds sang, how they looked like pearls, how they helped the sea. It has a happy uplifting vibe.**

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|||||| __//**BIBLIOGRAPHY:**//__ //http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomenStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Dickinson http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily dickinson.html//

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Twenty-first Century Books,**
 * Milton Meltzer "__Emily Dickinson A Biography"__
 * 2006**

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