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This poem //I prayed, at first, a little girl// is a very unique poem. It isn't like all of the other Emily Dickinson poems that I have read. Usually Emily writes about death or she is describing something like in poem 520. I guess this poem is kind of like she is describing an experience, but not exactly. This poem is talking about praying. In the first stanza it is telling us that she started to pray when she was a little girl. This is very usually, because most of us are brought up praying. It then says that the only reason she is praying is because someone told her to. And the child wonders why she is praying. I liked this stanza because it is telling us that we shouldn't just pray because we have to..we should pray because we want to. I think that we can pray prayers like "the Our father" or "hail Mary" but some of the best prayers to pray are the ones that we make up ourselves, because they come from our hearts. In the third stanza it kind of shows this because the child is praying. And this pray is just an average one. It is just talking to God. This poem is really a cute one. I think it is telling us to do things because we want to and not because we have to or are told to. This poem also tells us about God and how he is great and has a plan for us. 1205290880

I thought this poem taught a good lesson about religion. Like hla said above, the girl was told to pray when she was young but then she wonders why. She is questioning God in the poem. It is good to question God because you need to explore other religions and learn about other religions to see if you are choosing the religion that is right for you. I believe that Dickinson believes that there is a God from all the poems that I have read of hers. In the poem she is saying that if she ever feels at fault that she would turn to God for guidance. I believe that Dickinson believes that many people turn to God for guidance and help but sometimes people don't realize that they can't only ask God for help and that they have to thank him for what he has given to them.

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This poem, for once, is not about death. Emily Dickinson is talking about praying and about God. This poem is very cool because at first, she is praying, but then stopps to think about how divine, poewerful, and great God is. A lot of people- even in school when we pray before every class- don't really take the time to actually stop and think about their prayers and about God. It's as if praying has merely just become a daily routine. In this poem, though, Dickinson is really thinking about God and how our lives are affected by Him every day. She is discribing how powerful, kind, and awesome God is to us- especially when we're praying to him because we're basically talking directlyu to him and he's listening! In conclusion, I liked this poem because it was a refreshing change of pace from all of Dickinson's other poems about death and images of sadness. It was nice to read about something like God and religion for a change. 1205462662