Emily Dickinson Poem Analysis
The Last Night that She Lived
After evaluating my perception of The Last Night that She Lived, by Emily Dickinson. The message in this poem is we take life for granted and we don't appreciate it until we are threatened with losing it. Emily used what seems to me as free verse with no apparent rhyme but alliteration at times. This is a Narrative poem that tells a story about a death of a young woman.
In the first verse Dickinson was saying when she wrote,
"The last Night that She lived
It was a common night
Except to the Dying--This to Us
Made Nature different"
In that verse the poet was describing that to the ordinary person it was a regular night not out of the ordinary. Since she was dying the world seemed different to her. She had different views on her life and all of the sudden the smallest things she used to take for granted meant so much to her. This verse is an aphorism on how you don't know what you truly have until it's gone.
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