Symbols in A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

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A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

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Despite the fact that Dickinson welcomes nature into her life, here she exhibits an instinctively negative reaction to the snake—her blood runs cold. Dickinson, raised in the Puritan faith which she later rejected, could not help but see the snake as a symbol of evil.

Stephen Holliday

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