Since I believe Emily Dickinson wasn't really religious, I would say that she writes that the church steeples "swam in Amethyst" to show that the church steeples represent wealth. Amethyst is green, just like money, so maybe she wanted to portray wealth in this way.
is that the human beings are confronted with and being defined by the choices they make.
A label attached to someone or something for the purpose of identification or to give other info
Hyperbole -- this is basically an exaggeration.
" he wept so loudly that all Egyptians heard it " . Really, all of them...every single person in Egypt heard it ? lol...I think not
