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Genius Annotation

Emily Dickinson wasn’t your average woman. She sometimes wore full white, never left her house or let anyone into her room. She was also obsessed with death and spent hours staring at a cemetery through her bedroom window.

Because of her reclusive behavior she was considered a social pariah, eccentric and probably by some, insane. But also in her hermit-esque behavior she wrote poems shunning society like this famous one. A very rebellious act for her at the time when she had been raised in a very strict religious household, that abided to conformity.

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  1. 11.
    Much Madness is divinest Sense
  2. 17.
    Dawn
  3. 21.
    A Book
  4. 27.
    Mine
  5. 34.
    Proof
  6. 47.
    Why
  7. 66.
    A Day
  8. 72.
    Autumn
  9. 87.
    Real
  10. 91.
    Refuge
  11. 100.
    Dying
  12. 111.
    Lost
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