Read the poem: “A Man”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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A Man

Fate slew him, but he did not drop;

   She felled — he did not fall —

Impaled him on her fiercest stakes —

   He neutralized them all.

She stung him, sapped his firm advance,

   But, when her worst was done,

And he, unmoved, regarded her,

   Acknowledged him a man.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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