My+Life+Closed+Twice

In this poem, Emily Dickinson is talking of horrible events in our lives that are so painful, they seem to kill a part of us. That is what she means when she says, "My life closed twice before its close -". Emily had a very painful life, which many deaths of people closed to her. These were probably the closings of her life that she spoke of. She is also asking to a higher power if this could possibly happen a third time, and we get even more evidence of the facts that these were deaths of the people near her when she says, "Parting is all we know of heaven/ And all we need of hell." 1205466621

Emily Dickinson had a very depressing life because so many people that were close to her died. In this poem she speaks of a painful, tragic moments that occur in our lives. The pain of these events was so sharp that she feels as if her life ended, however she is still physically alive. "Its close" at the end of the first line refers to her literal death. I think the last two lines of the poem describe heaven and hell. We part wit hthose who die and go to heaven, however we who are left behind suffer the pain (hell) of the deaths that happen. 1205470697