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Emily Dickinson’s Poem 365 begins the first stanza with acknowledging that a “He” exists in silence and hiding. This He can be a possible perception God, as Dickinson him as being silent and in hiding, but still existing. The poem mentions that He has a rare life, a possible inference that God is the only thing in existence of that sort of being. All of these descriptions of the He in the first stanza infer that God is the thing she is contemplating here. In the second stanza, Dickinson presents a sort of playful tone with God suddenly bringing forth spurts of joy and happiness. God surprises those with an attack of love (a “fond Ambush”). This use of the word “Ambush” expands on how God’s life is from hiding, from the first stanza. Dickinson …show more content…

Death, the one who takes away life, is now becoming situated with the great joy from God. The poem begins to describe the fun (“play”) and joy (“glee”) as being too much and too strong (“piercingly earnest”), and that is when Death begins to look. When God is too much for us when revealing himself alongside joy, then Death stares us in the face, prepared to take away. In the fourth stanza, it describes how it looks to Death when our encounter with God becomes too much. The perfect bliss we experience, with too much “fun”, will look too good for what we should be able to comprehend (“look too expensive”). The joy will look like a joke (“jest”), gone too far, a sort of joke from God himself. From a certain perception this, if we die while having a playful fun with happiness, it will not appear to be so happy. At our death, it will look like God did too much with a direct encounter, and too much of this joy from him can lead one come close to dying. As the poem progresses, it moves from a description of God being with happiness to a God playing with us and happiness itself. There is a comparison between the perfect Bliss, and the playing with emotions and happiness from God. If God comes to a direct encounter with us a plays with our human lives, it will kill

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