Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson

My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

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.

A paradox is a statement which contains apparently opposing or incongrous
elements which, when read together, turn out to make sense. The first line
is paradoxical in that there are separate meanings for the words "closed"
and "close" -- Dickinson tells of having suffered 2 great losses, so
monumental as to be comparable to death. She wonders if another such
devastating event awaits her in the future.

Emily Dickinson

     #389

     There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House,
     As lately as Today --
     I know it, by the numb look
     Such Houses have—alway --

     The Neighbors rustle in and out --
     The Doctor—drives away --
     A ...

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