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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