Emily Dickinson The Feet of People Walking Home

One of Emily Dickinson’s poems, formally titled “The feet of people walking home,” is of some interest in its own merit. Unlike some of Dickinson’s other poems, such as the ones that exist among other versions due to a few dissimilarities, this poem is duplicated verbatim. To the untrained eye, this triviality would often be overlooked, were it not for the fact that Emily Dickinson had not intended on publishing many of her …showed first 75 words of 932 total…

…showed last 75 words of 932 total…meaning can be interpreted for this poem. Bibliography Franklin, R.W. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. Franklin, R.W. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorium Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. Johnson, Thomas H. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1988.