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Amherst / Massachusetts

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As if some little Arctic flower
Upon the polar hem—
Went wandering down the Latitudes
Until it puzzled came
To continents of summer—
To firmaments of sun—
To strange, bright crowds of flowers—
And birds, of foreign tongue!
I say, As if this little flower
To Eden, wandered in—
What then? Why nothing,
Only, your inference therefrom!

Emily Dickinson

Monday, January 13, 2003

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Indira Renganathan 28 October 2016

wandering lonely little arctic flower to summer land and sun and Eden...what next? of course the reader has to infer that she is feeling snared or relieved? ....you have to answer Emily- 10

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Angelina Holmes 06 May 2014

Arctic - cold. I want summer.

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