Throughout the “Parting” poem, the author explores feelings of profound pain as a result of the loss of two loved ones. The heaven and hell are not restricted for those who die, but the hell is also experienced by those who are left behind. The living hell instead of a hell after death is interpreted as a deep and sharp pain that takes place at every loss befell, and each loss takes a little piece of us within the deceased one. The poem refers to the death of others and author’s own death. In this context, Dickinson’s poem dramatizes her loss through the use of elements such as metaphors, anaphora, onomatopoeia, as well a paradox to deliver her message to her readers.
The poem’s metaphors are used to express her profound emotions. The author exposed her suffering and the feelings that resemble her death itself. In her attempt to get across to her message she uses the words such as “close” as a meaning of death. In this context, “My life closed twice before its close; […]” (1.1), the close symbolizes the end of an action or a close of a cycle in life. Thus, the “[…] closed twice […]” (1.1), is remarkable because it gives emphasis to the pain left after …show more content…
Through her poem she states a brilliant declaration, “Parting is all we know of heaven,” (2.3) “And all we need of hell.”(2.4), at the end of the poem the contradiction is emphatic, the heaven and the hell are some way interconnected by the “parting”. The “Parting” as a death is a huge misfortune of a human being, for to be a human she must die; she must suffer a loss at some point in life. The death of her beloveds is a hell for her and her death possible will be a hell to others. The irony of the poem starts when her loved ones die and supposedly went to heaven to enjoy eternal happiness, but she was left behind feeling the pain of their loss in eternal agony, which only will end at her “parting”, and this is her
The poem’s metaphors are used to express her profound emotions. The author exposed her suffering and the feelings that resemble her death itself. In her attempt to get across to her message she uses the words such as “close” as a meaning of death. In this context, “My life closed twice before its close; […]” (1.1), the close symbolizes the end of an action or a close of a cycle in life. Thus, the “[…] closed twice […]” (1.1), is remarkable because it gives emphasis to the pain left after …show more content…
Through her poem she states a brilliant declaration, “Parting is all we know of heaven,” (2.3) “And all we need of hell.”(2.4), at the end of the poem the contradiction is emphatic, the heaven and the hell are some way interconnected by the “parting”. The “Parting” as a death is a huge misfortune of a human being, for to be a human she must die; she must suffer a loss at some point in life. The death of her beloveds is a hell for her and her death possible will be a hell to others. The irony of the poem starts when her loved ones die and supposedly went to heaven to enjoy eternal happiness, but she was left behind feeling the pain of their loss in eternal agony, which only will end at her “parting”, and this is her