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There's been a Death, in the Opposite House Resources

Websites

Emily Dickinson's Obit

Intuit the news of her death.

"The End of Life: Exploring Death in America"

This is it, the hub of everything death-connected to this poem.

Dickinson Digital Archives

Can't get enough of the Belle of Amherst? Hunt down every crumb here.

Video

A Room with a View

Check out a reading of the poem here. (It begins at 1:30.)

Audio

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

If you can tolerate Keillor's intro and overly mellow tones, you can hear the poem here. Or skip to 3:08 for the good stuff.

Images

See for Yourself…

… if you agree with Dickinson that she was "small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves."

Quilted Northerner

Talk about creative. Here an artist has cross-stitched Dickinson's poems and marks on giant quilts.

Books

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

This one tips the scales at 770 pages.

Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

Shmoop it up a notch on the literati scale.