Gunning Bedford Sr. Gunning Bedford Sr. (April 7, 1742 â September 30, 1797) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware. He is often confused with his cousin, Gunning Bedford Jr., who was a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787.
The most frequently used color by Dickinson is the color purple. It appears that purple was her favorite color. She mentioned the color purple in her poems 54 times in 54 poems. The study discusses the various meanings of the color purple in Emily Dickinsonâs poetry. It tries to shed some lights on the symbolic
Emily Dickinsonâs versions of the poem each evoke a different emotion from the reader. The three versions range from being light and soft to dark and intense. The three versions all start with the same first stanza, it is in the second stanza where the changes are made. The first stanza of all three poems is the same.