Read the poem: “Emancipation”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Emancipation

No rack can torture me,

My soul’s at liberty

Behind this mortal bone

There knits a bolder one

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You cannot prick with saw,

Nor rend with scymitar.

Two bodies therefore be;

Bind one, and one will flee.

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The eagle of his nest

No easier divest

And gain the sky,

Than mayest thou,

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Except thyself may be

Thine enemy;

Captivity is consciousness,

So’s liberty.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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