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5 Poems/5 Days: Week Two

 Friends,

This week, let's look at the following poems, which show Dickinson masterfully defining and redefining the word "wife" and the concept of betrothal.

"Title divine--is mine" (Johnson 1072)
"He put a belt around my life" (Johnson 273)
"I am ashamed--I hide--" (Johnson 473)
"She rose to his requirement--dropt" (Johnson 732)
"I'm wife--I've finished that--"(199)

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I'll be posting supplemental material as we go along, and--as always--the texts of the poems, and my comments, every morning M-F.


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