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THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AFTER A HUNDRED YEARS / NOBODY KNOWS THE PLACE
Last Line: DROPPED BY MEMORY.
Subject(s): DEATH; MEMORY; DEAD, THE;

After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place, --
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace.
Weeds triumphant ranged,
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone orthography
Of the elder dead.
Winds of summer fields
Recollect the way, --
Instinct picking up the key
Dropped by memory.



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