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Emily Dickinson's Hummingbirds
Emily Dickinson used hummingbirds as a metaphor for how we read letters. She sometimes signed her poem, A Root of Evanescence, with the word hummingbird to make it seem like she was writing about herself. For Emily Dickinson, the hummingbird is a symbol and embodiment of an insight that is really deep in all of her writing.
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