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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "My Life Closed Twice before Its Close"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "My Life Closed Twice before Its Close"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "My Life Closed Twice before Its Close"
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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "My Life Closed Twice before Its Close"

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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "My Life Closed Twice before Its Close," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535829205
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "My Life Closed Twice before Its Close"

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      My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

      Emily Dickinson

      1896

      Introduction

      My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close was first published in Dickinson’s posthumous third collection, Poems by Emily Dickinson, third series, in 1896. Scholars do not know when it was written. The poem has also been published in some other anthologies under the name Parting. Like much of Dickinson’s best work, this poem is simultaneously personal and universal. On a personal level, the poem’s speaker is telling of the losses he or she has suffered, so painful that they were like death itself. Though the speaker has not yet experienced real, physical death, he or she cannot bear to imagine anything that could be more terrible than the two deprivations already experienced. The speaker does not tell us what these losses were, but one might imagine some bereavement—the death of a loved one, the end of a passionate

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