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Poems on this Site

"A Pit - but Heaven over it"

Explication

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Straight Paper

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Determining the text of the poem

Packet 29, in particular

H 157

View Manuscript page 537

View Manuscript page 538

View Manuscript page 555

Tracing the fragments

Comparing the Fragments

Placement of First stanza

Franklin's revision, HLB

H 155 Verso Manuscript

Revision Argument Conclusion

Placement of Second stanza

Publishing History

"A Pit"

H 157: 1st stanza

H 157: 2nd stanza

"My period had come for Prayer"

Dickinson & Humor

Dickinson & Cartoons

Animation of poem

Poem illustrated

Exploring Dickinson's variants

Make the changes yourself!

View all changes possible!

Explication of the poem

"Prayer" vocabulary background

"Prayer" vocabulary

View the fascicles!

"Publication - is the Auction"

Meditations on the text

Explication

Musical Accompaniment

Poem with Study Helps

"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers"