As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson

As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson

1. She spent a lot of time writing in her bedroom and rarely left her room after 1865

2. Her bedroom looked out onto a graveyard, where she watched five of her school friends be buried

3. She was an American writer

4. She never married an most of her friendships depended entirely on correspondance

5. This is written as an elegy which shows a lament of death

6. 'Summer' represents the prime of your life when you are in your early and late 20s

7. 'Summer lapsed away', summer symbolises the prime of your life and she is saying that it has gone away and isn't there anymore

8. She describes it as 'perfidy' which makes it seem like she has been deceived and didn't realise she was wasting her life

9. 'Twilight long begun', this suggests that a time of peace has finally come where she has accepted that she has wasted some of her life and that some of her friends died

10. 'harrowing Grace', there is an oxymoron here that symbolises that she is heading towards death and the autumn/winter of her life but also appreciative that she has made it this fair in life as many of her friends didn't

11. 'Into the beautiful' this suggests that even the her Summer is gone, something beautiful is coming her way

12. She personifies nature throughout the poem as 'Summer made her light' and 'nature spending time with herself'. This helps to envisage the idea that summer has picked herself up and left

13. 'dusk drew' the alliteration creates is a short sound, linking to how short the Summer of her life was