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    The poem "My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close" by Emily Dickinson explores grief and loss through the speaker's experience of suffering two metaphorical deaths before their actual death. The speaker questions whether they will face a third loss and if immortality will reveal what comes after death. Parting from loved ones is likened to heaven, while their absence is likened to hell. Through figurative language and rhyme, Dickinson conveys the speaker's profound sense of loss and uncertainty about the future.

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    The poem "My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close" by Emily Dickinson explores grief and loss through the speaker's experience of suffering two metaphorical deaths before their actual death. The speaker questions whether they will face a third loss and if immortality will reveal what comes after death. Parting from loved ones is likened to heaven, while their absence is likened to hell. Through figurative language and rhyme, Dickinson conveys the speaker's profound sense of loss and uncertainty about the future.

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    The poem "My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close" by Emily Dickinson explores grief and loss through the speaker's experience of suffering two metaphorical deaths before their actual death. The speaker questions whether they will face a third loss and if immortality will reveal what comes after death. Parting from loved ones is likened to heaven, while their absence is likened to hell. Through figurative language and rhyme, Dickinson conveys the speaker's profound sense of loss and uncertainty about the future.

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    “My Life Closed

    Twice Before Its


    Close”
    By: Emily Dickinson
    Motivationa
    l Activity :
    Talk it out
    Let’s talk it out!!
    Have you ever
    experience dying with
    Have you ever all your heart just
    01 thought about dying?
    02 because someone
    walked out in your
    life?
    If you were only given
    24 hours to live, what Do you believe that
    03 would you want to 04 “Pain changes a
    do? person”?
    Objectives
    At the end of discussion, we will be able to:

    ❖ Know the story of Emily Dickinson


    ❖ Identify the Literary devices used in the poem
    ❖ Analyse the “My Life Closed Twice Before Its
    Close”
    0
    Emily
    Elizabeth
    Dickinso

    1 n
    1830 - 1886
    Her life story:
    ● Emily Dickinson was reclusive American
    poet. Unrecognized in her own time,
    Dickinson is known posthumously for her
    innovative use of form and syntax.

    ● Emily Dickinson, born in Amherst,


    Massachusetts on December 10th 1830,
    and was the best poetess American ever
    created.
    Her life story:
    ● Her father worked at Amherst and
    served as a state legislator. He
    married Emily Norcross in 1828
    and the couple had three children :
    William Austin, Emily and Lavinia
    Norcross.
    Her life story:
    ● She was an excellent student and was
    educated at Amherst Academy (now
    Amherst College) for seven years and
    then attended Mount Holyoke Female
    Seminary for a year.
    ● During her lifetime, she kept staying at
    home except for a few short trips to
    Boston or Philadelphia.
    ● There, she wrote in secret whatever
    she was able to feel, see, hear and
    whatever she imagined.

    ● Although she guarded her poems even


    from her family, 1775 poems were
    discovered but only published seven
    poems during her lifetime.
    Dickinson’s Legacy
    ● Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 of
    heart failure
    ● She is considered influential to poets
    such as Adrienne Rich, Richard
    Wilbur, Archibald Macleish and
    William Stafford
    ● Along with Walt Whitman, Dickinson
    is one of the two giants of American
    poetry of the 19th century.
    Analysis of Emily Dickinson
    ● Strong influence of Puritanism on her
    thoughts (pessimism and tragic tone of her
    poems)
    ● Care about death and immortality
    ● Exploring human’s inner world
    The Creative Period
    ● Emily Dickinson is considered one of the leading
    19th century american poets, known for her
    bold original verse, haunting personal voice and
    enigmatic brilliance.
    Features of her Poems
    ● Within her little lyrics, she wrote about some
    of the most important things in life: love,
    nature, morality, and immortality.
    ● Poetry is for Dickinson a means to attain
    pleasure and medium to express her world
    outlook.
    ● Her favorite subjects are love, death and
    natural beauty.
    Features of her Poems
    ● Living in the 19th century, a comparatively religious
    era, she did not belong to any organized religion
    and often doubted about the existence and
    benevolence of God because she felt that wild
    nature of her was her church and she was able to
    converse directly with God there.
    ● Emily Dickinson wrote in the conventional metrical
    form, though she did not always strictly observe
    the rules of versification.
    Summary : “My Life Closed
    Twice Before Its Close”
    The poem explores the topics of grief and loss with
    a questioning spirit. The speaker enters the poem from
    a position of experience, having suffered two figurative
    deaths. As the speaker suggests, the loss of loved ones
    brings us close to that which lies beyond death, be it
    heaven, hell or nothing at all. The speaker honors our
    inability to know.
    “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close”
    1st Stanza 2nd Stanza
    My life closed twice So huge, so hopeless to
    before its close- conceive

    It yet remains to see As these that twice


    befell
    If Immortality unveil
    Parting is all we know
    A third event to me of heaven,

    And all we need of hell


    An Analysis of “My Life
    Closed Twice Before Its
    Close”
    Analysis: Line 1
    My life closed twice before its close-

    Line one is implying that she ‘died’ twice before


    her actual death.
    Literary Devices : Line 1
    My life closed twice
    before its close-

    Figuratively language:
    She uses anaphora, the repetition of words, to
    emphasize death;
    By using the words “closed” and “close”

    Repetition of the “I” sound when combined with


    the rhythm of iambic pentameter creates
    assonance, despite the interfering word in
    between
    Analysis: Line 2 and 3
    It yet remains to see
    If Immortality unveil

    Emily doesn’t know if she will ever love again, and


    She feels that her pain will never end and that
    she will live with the pain of her losses forever.
    This shows some of the hope that she has for
    love to re-enter her life.
    Literary Devices: Line 2 and 3
    It yet remains to see
    If Immortality unveil

    Personification:
    She uses personification of immortality as a way
    to explain her pain
    Also capitalizing Immortality alludes to Christian
    doctrines afterlife ideology
    Analysis: Line 4
    A third event to me

    In this line, Emily shows that she wants to love


    again, but she doesn’t know what the future
    holds for her.
    Analysis: Lines 5 and 6
    So huge, so hopeless to
    conceive,
    As these that twice befell

    Emily now doubts the small glimmer of hope for


    love that she expresses in her previous lines.
    They show her desire for a better life with love.
    Literary Devices: Lines 5 and 6
    So huge, so hopeless to
    conceive,
    As these that twice befell

    Rhyme scheme:
    2nd and 4th lines, 6th and 8 lines.
    Punctuation:
    The commas add pauses in the poem that
    emphasize that importance of Emily’s changed
    perspective from the 1st stanza to the second
    Analysis: Lines 7 and 8
    Parting is all we know of
    heaven,
    And all we need of hell

    This excerpt from Emily Dickinson’s poem briefly


    states how her loved ones have left her on earth.
    Now that they are no longer on Earth and are in
    Heaven instead.
    Earth figuratively is portrayed as Hell
    Literary Devices: Lines 7 and 8
    Parting is all we know of
    heaven,
    And all we need of hell

    Heaven and Hell symbolizes that positives and


    negatives in these two lost relationships.
    Heaven is viewed as a positive symbol and Hell is
    viewed as a negative symbol.
    Writing Styles
    ● My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close, is written into two
    quatrains or stanzas of four lines each, arranged in
    iambs. The iambs is a metrical foot of two syllables in
    which the first syllable is unstressed and the second is
    stressed. It is the basis for most common lines pattern in
    English verse.
    Rhyme Scheme
    ● The rhyme scheme in the poem is A, B, C, B in the first
    stanza and D, E, F, E in the second. This gives the poem
    a simple rhythm throughout. Dickinson ponders actual
    physical death in comparison to the events suffered in
    life.

    It yet remains to see As these that twice befell


    A third event to me And all we need of hell
    Annotation
    ● “My” - stands for the speaker or the poetess
    ● “Closed” - ended or terminated
    ● “Immortality” - deathlessness
    ● “Unveil” - reveals
    ● “Event” - experience of death
    ● “Huge” - mighty
    ● “Conceive” - visualize
    ● “Befell” - taken place/happened
    ● “Parting” - separating
    Thank You for
    Listening!
    God Bless
    You !
    References:
    ● https://prezi.com/_8arwzp-pij3/my-life-closed-twice-before-its-close/
    ● https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dickinson/my-life-closed-twice-before-its-clo
    se/

    ● https://www.owleyes.org/text/life-closed
    ● https://www.cambridge.org/co/academic/subjects/literature/american-literatur
    e/emily-dickinson-and-her-culture-souls-society?format=PB&isbn=97805213
    39780

    ● https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-dickinson/biography/emily-dic
    kinson-the-writing-years-1855-1865/

    ● https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dickinson/my-life-closed-twice-before-its-close/

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