Emily Dickinson is what many people might call a classic author of American Literature. She is mostly renowned for being an isolated person who only made contact with a few people in her life, and these, in turn, impacted her writing a great deal (Poets.org). This specific poem is a metaphor in and of itself, representing the prejudice of people and how they should be like the bee itself. In an AABA ryhme scheme, Dickinson uses a single-stanza poem to convey a much deeper message- do not judge a book by its cover (Freedman).

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A bee doesn’t care for the pedigree of its honey; after all, honey is honey. So is the clover just a clover, no matter the size or shape. That’s how humans should perceive other humans- without prejudice, and without judgement.