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Emily Dickinson's I Asked No Other Thing
Emily Dickinson’s poem "I Asked No Other Thing" reminds me of god the almighty who I really praise and thank and worship every day, the poem is not just telling me of his existence but also the reward which is heaven the place where all mankind strive to go after they die, heaven to me is a real place not just something imaginary and described by people, religious figures and storytellers, I might be good enough to enter and I might not, depends on my relation with god from the first place as MS Dickinson said "I asked no other thing, No other was denied, I offered being for it", really explains my journey in this life and all its nature.
Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain” also triggers me, triggers my sense of hope and desire which

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