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Author Question: Where is the speaker at the present moment of the poem? Why is time saidto pass more quickly where ... (Read 42 times)

Anajune7

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on: Jul 20, 2018
Where is the speaker at the present moment of the poem? Why is time saidto pass more quickly where she is now?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is the tone of the poem?
 
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meltdown117

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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1


  • Eternity is timeless.



Answer to Question 2


  • Complicatedseriousn ess enlivened with delicate macabre humor? Surely she kids her own worldly busyness in the opening line.



William Galperin reads the poem as a feminist affirmation. Not death, he finds, but immortality is Dickinsons subject. In the end the poet asserts a triumph possible only because she has renounced the proposal of Death, that threatening gentleman caller who might have married her (Emily Dickinsons Marriage Hearse, Denver Quarterly, Winter 1984: 6273).


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