APPENDIX 2 1. Emily Dickinson’s Poems The selected poems this study was taken from “Poems by Emily Dickinson” which edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson under the publication of LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY in 1948. It was printed in The United States of America. My Life Closed Twice Before its Close My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. Source: Hampson, M. D. B. a. A. L. (Ed.). (1948). Poems by EMILY DICKINSON. U.S America: Little Brown and Company. Summary: My life closed twice before its close includes in the Part One: Life of Dickinson’s …show more content…
But never I mind the bridges, And never I mind the sea; Held fast in everlasting race By my own choice and thee. Good-by to the life I used to live, And the world I used to know; And kiss the hills for me, just once; Now I am ready to go! Source: Hampson, M. D. B. a. A. L. (Ed.). (1948). Poems by EMILY DICKINSON. U.S America: Little Brown and Company. Summary: This poem includes in the Part Four: Time and Eternity. It tells the speaker readiness to face death as the natural cycle that human powerless to deny. In this poem the speaker hopes for her/ his death come sooner if God give the chance. The speaker gets ready whenever “My Lord” calling for her/his death. So Proud She Was to Die So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy Source: Hampson, M. D. B. a. A. L. (Ed.). (1948). Poems by EMILY DICKINSON. U.S America: Little Brown and Company. Summary: This poem is cynical poem that Dickinson uses to tease people who just concern on life things. The woman who died in this poem accepts her death without any rejection. She is aware that every living creature will be die include human