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Poems of Emily Dickinson: Superiority To Fate

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

Dickinson, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Superiority To Fate

This too is a poem of deprivation, and how one learns to deal with it.
The poet says (first stanza) that it is not conferred but earned, as we learn
from the second stanza, "a pittance at a time." In such a gradual way the soul
learns, though deprived, to "subsist" in life until Paradise.

Comment:

Although representing Emily Dickinson in its excellence of preciseness,
this poem is just another example of a life philosophy grounded in pessimism,
Puritan pessimism which stresses the "vale of tears" over happinesses in the
earthly ...

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