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This study examines Emily Dickinson’s >God Gave a Loaf to Every Bird<, which talks about love, life, and happiness. The purpose of this study is to find out God’s love in the poem. The method used in this paper is the intrinsic and extrinsic approach. The intrinsic elements, such as diction and imagery, are used to get the deeper meaning of the poem. The second one is describe the mutual love between the speaker and God through the extrinsic elements, focuses on the speaker’s perspective, maturity and life experience based on the theory of love by Erich Fromm concerning on Love of God aspects. The result shows that the speaker of the poem expresses her feelings while giving the other creature a pleasure, besides the speaker of the poem is categorized as a religious person who always grateful for what she owned.