Emily Dickinson's My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

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Who is Emily Dickinson? Emily Dickinson is considered one of America's greatest poets and by far one of my favorite poets now. After reading about Emily Dickinson I can see that she lost a lot of people that were very important to her in her life. I believe that’s why a lot of her poems are about death and she wrote about her feelings about the events that occurred in her lifetime. Whether it was about death or love, her poems tell a great deal of her lifestyle and how she deals with it in different ways.
One of the many poems I have read "My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” is a very grieving poem that has to do with death. In the first line in her poem she says, "My life closed twice before its close." You can't help but think that she had two prior events happen in her life were so harsh and hurtful to her, either she broke up with someone or she lost someone, either way it was basically, like death. Although she didn't experience death herself, it was so painful it was like death. She does mention there being a third event occurring. At the end of the poem she uses a paradox, "Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell." In this part it's like she's saying that the people …show more content…
It Seems like Emily Dickinson had dealt with a lot of deaths throughout her lifetime. When I read this poem, I imagine her at a funeral of the two people she had lost. When she describes as losing something “in the sod,” it seems to suggest that the lost were people who died and were buried in the ground. After researching about the poem, I found that this poem is actually about her loss of two friends, back when she was younger. In her poem she also talks about religion and how she blamed god and was begging him to bring them back to her, but knows they can't return and she says, "I am poor once
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