| A | B |
| wrote "Songs of Myself | Whitman |
| Because I could not stop for Death | line from "The Carriage held but just Ourselves..." |
| "I could not see to see." | from a poem by Dickenson |
| the recluse of Amherst | Emily Dickenson |
| Not one of all the purple Host/Who took the flag today | contains a military image |
| I heard a fly buzz | auditory image |
| love is uncertain, unpredictable | theme of "If You Were Coming in the Fall" |
| majority | a word used by Dickenson for poetic ambiguity |
| Wadsworth | married man that Emily Dickenson fell in love with |