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Emily Dickinsons poem I had been hungry all the years highlights her
sense of belonging with nature rather than with humanity. She
expresses that she did not know the ample bread was so unlike the
crumb, relying on the metaphorical juxtaposition of the ample bread
and crumb to convey how her experience of belonging contradicted
her original thoughts. She expresses metaphorically that The birds
and I had often shared the crumbs in Nature dining room, the
personification of nature highlighting her sense of belonging with
Nature and her preference to remain hungry rather than dislocated in
society As a berry of a mountain bush transplanted in the road,
highlighted through the use of a simile. Dickinsons spiritual context is
evident in the poem, as she retreated from society she became
entranced by the beauty of Nature, which served as a comfort for her
in times of death. In the last line she relies on the paradox The
entering takes away to symbolize how she no longer feels a need to
belong with society. Linking sentence-