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I GOT SO I COULD TAKE HIS NAME by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Itself, too vast, for interrupting – more –
Subject(s): LOVE – LOSS OF; MOURNING;
I got so I could take his name -
Without - Tremendous gain -
That Stop-sensation - on my Soul -
And Thunder - in the Room -


I got so I could walk across
That Angle in the floor,
Where he turned so, and I turned - how -
And all our Sinew tore -
I got so I could stir the Box -
In which his letters grew
Without that forcing, in my breath -
As Staples - driven through -

Could dimly recollect a Grace -
I think, they call it "God" -
Renowned to ease Extremity -
When Formula, had failed -

And shape my Hands -
Petition's way,
Tho' ignorant of a word
That Ordination - utters -

My Business - with the Cloud,
If any Power behind it, be,
Not subject to Despair -
It care, in some remoter way,
For so minute affair
As Misery -
Itself, too vast, for interrupting - more -


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