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Emily Dickinson
Title: Emily Dickinson
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 3025 | Pages: 12.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Emily Dickinson
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
My life closed twice before its close--
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
A paradox is a statement which contains apparently opposing or incongrous
elements which, when read together, turn out to make sense. The first line
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…showed last 75 words of 3025 total…now absent from American culture. However, the sixty years that
separate the creation of these two poems seems to have provided a degree if
sophistication which has made Wallace Stevens’ vision of death at home a
vision shared by all of his readers. Both poems have a sense of multiple
emotion, but Stevens’ poem is much more realized, the emotions much more
original, which in the end makes his much more memorable than Dickinson’s.
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