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"His Heart was darker than the starless night" is a good poem that explains what happens to your soul if you do bad things. The darkness of a night without the stars is not as dark as a heart that does a lot of bad to themselves and to others. A good person with a few sins on their soul, but you acknowledge that what you did was bad and try not to do it again, you still have a good chance at Heaven. However if you do bad things all of your life and are not sorry for what you did or the sin is unforgiveable then you have no chance at Heaven. That is how I interpret this poem.

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I really like this poem because it is discribing something very real, but at the same time, Emily Dickinson does it in a way that is short and to the point. Dickinson is obviously talking about a man who has or had a very cold and mean heart. Her similies are also very important, especially when she is discribing how the heart can sometimes be cold but then it goes back to being kind again, but this man's heart always stays cold and cruel. She is basically saying that each heart has it's momentarily "cold" moments, but then eventually "warms" back up to the kindness that it usually contains again. But apparently this man's cold heart is never ever warm. 1205462145