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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 45.
There's something quieter than sleep
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Comment 3 of 3, added on December 13th, 2005 at 9:09 AM.
i think that this poem shows what emily felt about the deaths of her friends/relatives
benjamin kennady
Comment 2 of 3, added on October 19th, 2005 at 1:48 PM.
I understood it more along the lines of death being the silence she spoke of, and that it was not death that weeped but the people for the dead, and that this weeping was an interruption of the perfect silence (death itself). In the poem, this weeping scared away the birds, destroying the calm and silence of the dead.
Jessie from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on September 26th, 2005 at 9:11 AM.
In the first paragraph it hints that death is hidden in the silence. It reassures that death should not weep and scare the sweetest thing, for it is "rude" to intrude something peacefull and bring upon a negative environment.
Ariana from United States
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i think that this poem shows what emily felt about the deaths of her friends/relatives
benjamin kennady