Page 186 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit

“I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”
by Emily Dickinson, page 69

Vocabulary
bog – a wet, spongy area of ground, where one is likely to sink, and where frogs live

1. Describe the over-all tone of this poem.

2. What does fame seem to consist of to the speaker?

3. By comparing the announcement or telling of her name to the calls of a frog, what does the speaker
infer is the value of it?

“This is My Letter to the World”
by Emily Dickinson, page 69

Vocabulary
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1. Explain the meaning of the lines “Her message is committed/To hands I cannot see.” To whose
“hands” does the poet refer?

2. To whom did “Nature” tell “news”? What is the news?

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