Happy Mother’s Day to each and every mother!
Today I have two poems along with info about Emily Dickinson’s mother from the ED Museum in Amherst. First the info about Dickinson’s mother, HERE.
Today I have two poems along with info about Emily Dickinson’s mother from the ED Museum in Amherst. First the info about Dickinson’s mother, HERE.
Now on to the two poems:
 | Dickinson used the word “mother” in 9 different poems, and I’ve selected one of them, “Nature – the gentlest mother is.” She also used the word “mama” in one poem, “Mama never forgets her birds” – and this poem is likely about her own mother.  One note about the first poem: When the poem was first published in 1914, editor Mabel Loomis Todd gave the poem a title, “MOTHER NATURE,” and she changed the first line to “Nature, the gentlest mother.” Later editions of Dickinson’s poems righted the line and published it as “Nature – the gentlest mother is.” |
More on Dickinson's mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, is HERE.
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