A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
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Emily, Austin and Lavinia
Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson spent most of her life in this bedroom.
The “bold” handwriting of the mature poet.
Emily Dickinson about seventeen.
Photostat of Emily Dickinson’s second letter to Mr. Higginson, wherein she
described her teacher and her lover. She addressed the envelope herself.
The only surviving daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson.
"Wild Nights" manuscript.
Emily Dickinson's grave at the West Cemetery in Amherst, Massachusetts.
! ENGLISH 1102 STUDENTS: Although a recluse with a famously uneventful biography, Emily Dickinson had a full life in the poems she wrote. Share your impressions about the poet's repertoire in a one-page essay (about 250 words). Please remember to submit your work as WEB through www.turnitin.com.