Zusammenfassung der Ressource
As Imperceptibly as Grief
- Emily Dickinson
- Title
- Nobody notices the authors
pain or grief
- Unbearable and overwhelming grief
- Context
- ED lived in Massachusetts in the 19th century
- She was a recluse
- Several family members and friends
died before this poem was written
- Structure
- Dashes create a hesitant and disjointed feel
- 1 stanza, 16 lines
- 'The Summer lapsed away'
- Summer could represent the
happiness and it fading as grief sets in
- 'Twilight long begun'
- The darkness begins
- 'Dusk drew earlier in'
- Dusk coming earlier each day
symbolises the light leaving her life
- 'Morning foreign shone'
- Morning brings light, she is saying light is so
rarely seen in her life that it is foreign to her
- 'Into the Beautiful.'
- Ready to move on with the rest of her life