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Read & copy the quotation
“I measure every grief I meet With analytic eyes; I wonder if it weighs like mine, Or has an easier size.”
- Source
- Griefs — Emily Dickinson
- Date
- 1896
Meaning of “I measure every grief I meet With analytic…”
Personal grief becomes a lens for noticing other people's suffering, with the speaker comparing losses while admitting that another person's burden cannot be known directly.
Where does it come from?
“Griefs,” Poems: Third Series (1896), Project Gutenberg #12242. The poem explores comparison and recognition of suffering rather than offering a clinical scale for grief.
