a study in the very small:

Emily Dickinson

Her Life in Amherst

1830 -1886 Highly educated Respected family Hobbies: gardening

and cooking Keen observer of nature Wrote over 1700 poems

I’ll 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.”

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

Life as a Recluse

the Homestead Life of isolation Keen writer of letters Poetry reflects

Preoccupation with Death

Small moments of inspiration

Her loneliness

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you -- Nobody -- too?

Then there’s a pair of us?

Don’t tell! They’d advertise -- you know!

How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!How public -- like a Frog --

To tell one’s name -- the livelong June --To an admiring Bog!