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Poet: Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson Art)
Poem: 1732.
My life closed twice before its close --
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Jul 12 2009
Comment 67 of 67, added on January 20th, 2010 at 12:54 AM.
hmmm..
in my opinion, this poem is quite complex. i had to read it time and time again, but i eventually came to an understanding. she tries to fit so much information and feeling into one line, that it is difficult to understand what she is trying to get through. but when she wrote these poems she had no intention of showing them to anyone so i would probably do the exact same thing that she had. see she was a very closed off person and when she died, they found over 2000 poems in her dresser drawers and scattered all around her bedroom. she was a very bright person, being educated from a wealthy society. i just wish she knew how famous she had become before she had passed away, considering she is a very well known american poet. pretty ironic, huh?
Audrey from United States
Comment 66 of 67, added on January 1st, 2010 at 7:51 AM.
My understanding of this poem is as follows.
I died twice within this life
when 2 I loved ... found immortality
Now I am left to live in dread
Perchance the thought of three
These thoughts consume me endlessly
Of those that twice before me fell
Only the living suffer death
And know the fire of hell.
Elaine
Elaine George from Canada
Comment 65 of 67, added on March 5th, 2009 at 11:41 AM.
i think its the meaning of death and the she loves of death.
lori from United States
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in my opinion, this poem is quite complex. i had to read it time and time again, but i eventually came to an understanding. she tries to fit so much information and feeling into one line, that it is difficult to understand what she is trying to get through. but when she wrote these poems she had no intention of showing them to anyone so i would probably do the exact same thing that she had. see she was a very closed off person and when she died, they found over 2000 poems in her dresser drawers and scattered all around her bedroom. she was a very bright person, being educated from a wealthy society. i just wish she knew how famous she had become before she had passed away, considering she is a very well known american poet. pretty ironic, huh?
Audrey from United States