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... hills and mountains could symbolize women , and more specifically , female breasts . As early as the fall of 1851 , she dressed her hills in " blue mantillas ” ( 163 ) , and she continued to dress and undress them for years , now in ...
... hills and mountains could symbolize women , and more specifically , female breasts . As early as the fall of 1851 , she dressed her hills in " blue mantillas ” ( 163 ) , and she continued to dress and undress them for years , now in ...
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... hills ! are you ' ware of me , my hills , How I burn toward you ? do you feel to - night The urgency and yearning of my soul , As sleeping mothers feel the sucking babe And smile ? [ 5. 1266–71 ] The April 1856 letter to John Graves ...
... hills ! are you ' ware of me , my hills , How I burn toward you ? do you feel to - night The urgency and yearning of my soul , As sleeping mothers feel the sucking babe And smile ? [ 5. 1266–71 ] The April 1856 letter to John Graves ...
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... hills there will be as " blue " as reported by sailors . The letter has a curiously unreal , manufactured sound , as if to a ghost or a figment of her imagination ; it is unlike anything she ever wrote to any- one else . Her expectation ...
... hills there will be as " blue " as reported by sailors . The letter has a curiously unreal , manufactured sound , as if to a ghost or a figment of her imagination ; it is unlike anything she ever wrote to any- one else . Her expectation ...
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