Nature the Gentlest Mother – Emily Dickinson
Read Emily Dickinson’s complete six-quatrain textbook poem in original order before studying its maternal metaphor, imagery, sound and appreciation.
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Nature, the Gentlest Mother: Complete Text
Read Emily Dickinson’s complete six-quatrain textbook poem in original order before studying its maternal metaphor, imagery, sound and appreciation.
Open article →Nature, the Gentlest Mother: Patience and Guidance
Explain how Dickinson presents Nature as a patient mother whose mild correction reaches weak, wayward and impetuous children in forest and hill.
Open article →Nature, the Gentlest Mother: Conversation and Prayer
Follow the poem from a fair summer afternoon to sunset, when Nature’s household gathers and her voice calls the smallest cricket and flower to prayer.
Open article →Nature, the Gentlest Mother: Lamps, Care and Silence
Interpret the final two quatrains as Nature settles her children, lights evening lamps, bends from the sky and gently commands universal silence.
Open article →Nature, the Gentlest Mother: Figures of Speech
Learn the poem’s extended personification and metaphor, imagery, alliteration, six-quatrain structure, slant rhyme and a method for significant-line answers.
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