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Emily Dickinson

A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

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The Frost of Death was on the Pane (1136)” by Emily Dickinson (1866)

This poem directly references “A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)” and enriches its interpretative potential. Here, she extends her love of nature to its non-animal aspects, including flowers, the sea, mountains, the sun, and even the titular frost. “The Frost of Death was on the Pane” also speaks directly to Dickinson’s chronic illnesses and increasingly isolated lifestyle, as the speaker of the poem contemplates mortality and the inevitability of death while looking out of a window.

Because I could not stop for Death (479)” by Emily Dickinson (1890)

In “Because I could not stop for Death,” Dickinson’s isolation and fear of death is cast aside for a playful personification of Death, which, though resolute in collecting the speaker, is nevertheless polite in its approach. There is an optimistic energy in the poem’s contemplation of Eternity that is not present in later works.

Hope is the thing with Feathers (314)” by Emily Dickinson (1861)

This poem anticipates “A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096),” as its speaker offers the opposite of personification—zoomorphism, or taking a human feature and making it animalistic.

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