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Poems of Emily Dickinson: I Never Lost As Much But Twice

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

Dickinson, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
I Never Lost As Much But Twice

The first line, "I never lost as much but twice," suggests, by the phrase
"as much," that there is a third loss to be recorded, which we see is the case
from the second stanza. The other three lines of the first stanza simply make
clear that the first two losses were through death, by reference to "sod" and
the "door of God." We infer from the beginning of the second stanza that
angels, after "twice descending," "reimbursed" her store by providing another
object of admiration or love. But the rapid-fire ending which ...

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