As Imperceptibly as Grief 1865 * Flashcards

Emily Dickinson - passage of time, change and transformation, pain and suffering, death and loss

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context

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  • interested in death
  • lived in isolation
  • house next to graveyard
  • family member passed when young
  • wrote during civil war
  • very exposed to death - is she exploring the want to understand death again?
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paras for comaprison with To Autumn

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  • both passege of time
  • both giref
  • faith differs, aiag- no faith, to autumn-faith
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poem to compare with

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  • To Autumn
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paras if given

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  • desribed passage of time
  • ## describes ideas of grief, emotions, understanding
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para 1

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passage of time:
- “summer lapsed away”
- “twilight long begun”
- “sequestered afternoons”
- “dusk drew earluer in”
- “mornign foreig shone”
- “too imperceptibel at last to seem like perfidy”

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para 2

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grief:
- “imperciptibly” - unnoticable
- “dusk drew earlier in”
- “twilightj long begun Or Nature spending with herself”
- “mornign forign shone”
- “harrowing”
- “as guest that would be gone”

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para 3

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nto much hope:
- “quiteness distilled”
- “mornign foreign shone”
- “harrowing grace”
- “Nature spending with herself”

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