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Poems of Emily Dickinson: Remorse Is Memory Awake

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickinson, Emily

Dickinson, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Remorse Is Memory Awake

Probably the second most obsessive theme of Emily Dickinson's, after the
theme of death, time and immortality, is that of pain and its various forms.
Without a doubt, pain to this poet meant "mental anguish," but it is just as
real as physical pain, because of the intensity of her imagination and her
constant poetic exploration of this pain. Although we are not sure how or why,
we can be certain that this poet suffered. One rich expression of this mental
pain, filled with paradoxical word combinations and displaying the poet at ...

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