My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

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My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

• Emily Dickinson

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• 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.

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Poem Analysis

• There are only two stanzas in this poem but a lot
  to be said. Her partings we believe to represent
  sins. And partings are your pathway to hell, and
  what you attempt to not do on your journey to
  heaven.
• In the poem, the word Immortality is the only
  word that is not the beginning of a line that is
  capitalized. It represents the after life and a
  new event for you to experience but it remains
  covered and unseen.

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Literary Elements

• Personification Immortality unveiling an event.
• Metaphor Event closing out her life before she
  actually dies. Her last acts before deaths door.

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Poem Structure

• 2 stanzas, 4 lines per
• 8 lines in total
• Rhyme scheme of A,B,C,B D,E,F,E

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The Grass

• Emily Dickinson

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• The grass so little ahs to do-
• A sphere of simple green,
• With only butterflies to brood,
• and bees to entertain,
• And stir all day to pretty tunes
• The breezes fetch along,
• And hold the sunshine in its lap
• And bow to everything
• And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
• And make itself so fine,--
• A duchess were too common
• For such a noticing.
• And even when it dies, to pass
• In odours so divine,
• As lowly spices gone to sleep,
• Or amulets of pine

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Poem Overview

• 5 stanzas, 2 lines per
• 10 total lines
• calm mood
• beauty in the simplicity of nature