Abstract:One sob in the throat, one flutter of bosom -"My business is to sing" -and away she rose! (L269)Perhaps you smile at me. I could not stop for that -My Business is Circumference -. (L268) " . . . a word of extensive use and indefinite signification . . . ." Noah Webster, "Business," American Dictionary of the English Language (italics in original)Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. The poem that lends several lines to this essay's title, "To hea… Show more
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