"My life closed twice before its close - It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell." Think about it............ then stop thinking about it. What are you....obsessed?
well no I'm intrigued... let's see suffering so much pain it's comparable to dying death is all we know of heaven... and the despair we experience from death the verge of hell
Basically it's.....Life is enough.....it's Heaven AND it's Hell. We don't need fantasies of an after-life where it's 'one or the other' for 'all Eternity'.
That' beautiful I don't see the life is enough part To me it sounds like she's saying, the only thing we know of heaven is death, therefore heaven could be like hell, which is like dying anyway.
Emily Dickinson wasn't necessarily an atheist. She lived in an era when traditional Christian beliefs were being challenged by emerging scientific concepts, the most influential being Darwinism. While not religious, a more accurate description of Dickinson's personal belief in God could be described as complex. An interweaving of faith and doubt, mortality and immortality. Ultimately she was a sensitive soul, and the deaths of friends, family members, and the Civil War turned her into a recluse in later years.
