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Emily Dickinson - We outgrow love, like other things

We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer --
Till it an Antique fashion shows --
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 887. We outgrow love, like other things
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955

Comment 5 of 5, added on October 20th, 2007 at 7:42 AM.

The poet tries to tell that as we experience and discover somethings, which once seemed very unreachable, start to be an ordinary thing in time. Dickinson uses the word "antique" not as a "priceless" but rather "an ordinary" thing.

zuhal from Turkey
Comment 4 of 5, added on May 23rd, 2007 at 6:31 AM.

in fact it is a so perfect poem and am studing dickenson now. i think that emily feels that she needs to renew her past experiences because she miss them.

meme from Saudi Arabia
Comment 3 of 5, added on February 17th, 2005 at 10:39 PM.

i can also relate to this because i thought i was in love before but it really didn't last that long, so maybe we can live without it. Love isn't everything.

Breann from United States

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