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Dickinson's 'Bereavement in their Death to Feel.' (poem by woman poet Emily Dickinson)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19980322
Author:Moore, Richard

Woman poet Emily Dickinson structured poem 645 in the form of a riddle. The poem, whose opening line is 'Bereavement in their death to feel,' was not published until 1935 and might possibly have confounded her editors. Its readers are likely to be left with an impenetrable mystery as the verse leaves a number of questions unresolved such as the identity of the people whose death would make others (the readers) feel bereaved.

Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen - A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs - between - For Stranger - Strangers do not mourn - There ...

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