Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for I (I'd, I'll, I'm, I've)
I (I'd, I'll, I'm, I've), pron. [OE ic < Gmc. ek.] (webplay: arise, closes, coin, delights, ear, extent, fail, feign, field, fine, friend, gift, glory, holy, join, jot, kind, Latin, learned, letter, long, me, meek, oil, opened, organs, pity, seen, seize, self, sound, us, vain, we, writer, yes). The speaker; first-person nominative personal pronoun.
- Refers to a gender neutral observer not named in the text.
- Refers to a female observer not named in the text.
- Refers to a male observer not named in the text.
- Refers to a speaker of enormous power and authority, such as a Queen, poet, artist or unspecified monarch.
- Specific language suggesting Dickinson herself.
- Refers to a speaker from the grave or beyond.
- Refers to a gender neutral child not named in the text.
- Refers to a girl.
- Refers to a boy.
- Refers to a female spouse.
- Refers to a female considering marriage.
- Refers to a female taking vows or making a covenant.
- Refers to a speaker who feels imprisoned.
- Refers to a flower named in the text.
- Refers to a bird that named in the text.
- Refers to a three aspects of selfhood in the speaker.
- Refers to a direct quotation spoken by Jesus.
- Refers to a speaker pondering the next life.
- Refers to a speaker pondering mortality.
- Refers to a speaker who reflect on the future.
- Refers to a speaker who is royal or upper class.
- Refers to a speaker as male and female.
- Refers to an aspect of nature, such as the wind or a rain storm.
- Refers to a speaker who is volatile or one who lives near a volcano.
- Refers to a carpenter.
- Refers to a person addressing a mountain colored by a sunset or a sunrise.
- Refers to a loaded gun personified as speaking to its owner.
- Refers to love personified.
- Refers to a lost speaker.
- Refers to a speaker described intoxicated by nature.
- Refers to speaker displaying the traits of a blacksmith.
- Refers to the human spirit personified.
- Refers to John the Beloved or John the Baptist.
- Refers to Thermopylae personified.
- Refers to a syllable whose faith saves it from despair.
- Refers to midnight personified.
- Refers to the sunrise as majesty personified.
- Refers to a fly personified.
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