A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | Metaphors Bring New Insights

In the following essay, the author analyzes Emily Dickinson’s “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” as a nature poem containing metaphors that bring the reader new insights.

Emily Dickinson was a reclusive and mysterious woman who spent half her life in seclusion. Dickinson had a strong sense of her own spirituality even as a young woman. Before she reached twenty years of age, she left Mount Holyoke Female Seminary because she refused to join the Congregationalist church, which was heavily influenced by Calvinism. Unwilling to live the restricted lifestyle required by the church (which included, among other things, disapproval of reading novels), Dickinson returned home to her family. She, like Henry David Thoreau, simplified her life in terms of objects...

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