Second Response Paper

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In our world there are many different ways an individual can have possession or dispossession toward a commodity. In this case there are three ways to have possession, ownership, control and to just obtain something of matter. Dispossession is the complete opposite of possession. All of what has been obtained, control and ownership has now been lost because of dispossession. This relates to Susan Howe’s My Emily Dickinson because she uses a lot of references to herself, thus giving the reader a great sense of this being her story and her views on life and society through poetry.
There are three different ways someone can have possession of something. There is possession of having an item or object, owning an item or object or controlling that item or object. To own possession of an item means that one has obtained a piece a property. An example to this is when a person goes to the store and purchases a watch. As soon as they purchase their new watch they will also get handed a receipt as well as ownership of that watch. The second form of possession is to have possession of anything....

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