Emily Dickinson writes: "I like to see it lap the miles, / And lick the valleys up, / And stop to feed itself at tanks; / And then, prodigious, step / Around a pile of mountains". What do the surrounding words fix "it" as?

Dickinson writes: "I like to see it lap the miles, / And lick the valleys up". Which meaning of "lap" do the surrounding words fix?

A Dickinson poem calls something a "narrow fellow": "The grass divides as with a comb, / A spotted shaft is seen; / And then it closes at your feet / And opens further on." What do these words fix "fellow" as?

Dickinson writes: "Not one of all the purple host / Who took the flag to-day / Can tell the definition, / So clear, of victory". What do the surrounding words fix "host" as?

Dickinson writes of a dying soldier: "As he, defeated, dying, / On whose forbidden ear / The distant strains of triumph". What do the surrounding words fix "strains" as?

Dickinson writes: "The soul selects her own society, / Then shuts the door; / On her divine majority / Obtrude no more." What do the surrounding words fix "society" as?

Dickinson writes: "Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing / At her low gate; / Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling / Upon her mat." Which word decides that "notes" means only "observes"?

Dickinson writes: "I taste a liquor never brewed, / From tankards scooped in pearl". The next stanza opens: "Inebriate of air am I, / And debauchee of dew". What do the surrounding words fix "liquor" as?

Dickinson writes: "Pain has an element of blank; / It cannot recollect". What do the surrounding words fix "blank" as?

Dickinson ends a poem about sunset: "A dominie in gray / Put gently up the evening bars, / And led the flock away." Which word decides that "bars" means the rails of a gate?

Dickinson writes: "I never saw a moor, / I never saw the sea; / Yet know I how the heather looks". Which word decides that "moor" means open country?

Dickinson writes: "It sifts from leaden sieves, / It powders all the wood, / It fills with alabaster wool / The wrinkles of the road." What do the surrounding words fix "It" as?

Dickinson writes: "There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away, / Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry. / This traverse may the poorest take / Without oppress of toll". What does "traverse" mean here?

Dickinson writes "Without oppress of toll" about reading a book, and elsewhere "And instead of tolling the bell for church". What does "toll" mean in the first?

Dickinson writes "The brain is just the weight of God" and elsewhere "I just wear my wings". What does "just" mean in the first?

Dickinson writes "Then close the valves of her attention" and "My life closed twice before its close". What does "close" mean at the end of the second line?

Dickinson writes "The hours slid fast, as hours will," and elsewhere "To feel if blinds be fast, / And closer to the fire". What does "fast" mean in the second?

Dickinson writes "You, unsuspecting, wear me too -- / And angels know the rest" and elsewhere "That sat it down to rest". What does "rest" mean in the first?

Dickinson describes a hummingbird: "A route of evanescence / With a revolving wheel; / A resonance of emerald, / A rush of cochineal". "Resonance" usually pairs with sound, not color. What does this pairing do?

Dickinson writes: "I've known her from an ample nation / Choose one; / Then close the valves of her attention / Like stone." "Valves" is an unusual partner for "attention". What does the pairing suggest?