A few days ago

Megan

Can someone PLEASE help me analyze this Emily Dickinson poem?

God gave a loaf to every bird,

But just a crumb to me;

I dare not eat it, though I starve,–

My poignant luxury

To own it, touch it, prove the feat

That made the pellet mine,–

Too happy in my sparrow chance

For ampler coveting.

It might be famine all around,

I could not miss an ear,

Such plenty smiles upon my board,

My garner shows so fair.

I wonder how the rich may feel,–

An Indiaman–an Earl?

I deem that I with but a crumb

Am sovereign of them all.

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A few days ago

Kasey

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that she is a slave that is awnting to be liek the rich and shhe belives that god set everyones life out to be more gaining. she thinks that with that crumb she is adding to her loaf of bread and she is on her way to being like the rest of the ‘birds’

A few days ago

Marty M

She’s saying that others were given more, but she feels rich. She feels rich for owning what she has, and she has those things because she garnered (worked for) them and hoarded them. All around her others are poor. But the elite, the Earls who really are rich, she feels just as rich as the Earls and just as good and rich as the best of them.

Emily Dickinson, I believe was a plain very talented writer. She didn’t have much and was a loner, but apparently she felt very rich with the talents and possessions that she could create(her writing) and owned.

A few days ago

Anonymous

This person has very little in material things. However, she considers herself very lucky to have even very little. In this case, she refers to food to illustrate the point. She would not use it, but cherish the effort it took to get what little she has.

Even if she experienced a famine, it would not bother her. Her “board” or plate would have plenty and her “garner”, or pantry, would look as good as if she had more.

She compares herself with wealthy people who have a lot, but that she would feel above them in wealth for only having a little.

4 years ago

Anonymous

Gentlest is taken from comfortable, meaning reliable nature and robust humor and “mom’ is work in our relatives which stands for romance and robust and severe-high quality temperament. The poetess had used this words in her poem to describe the main comfortable and loving individual. because of the fact while gentlest is used with “mom” it has won a brilliant expressive capacity of love and gentleness. reliable success

A few days ago

angelstarszzzz

she is talking about the fact that she is in control of her life…despite the outside influences in her life…

A few days ago

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Can someone PLEASE help me analyze this Emily Dickinson poem?

Can someone PLEASE help me analyze this Emily Dickinson poem?

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