A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

by Emily Dickinson

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what are the figures of speech present in the poem?

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Dickinson relies mainly on metaphors as she refers to the snake as a "narrow fellow ...[that] rides [the grass]," a "spotted shaft," and "a whiplash unbraiding in the...

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Posted by cybil on October 2, 2008 at 11:35 PM

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