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Griefs — Emily Dickinson Quotes by Emily Dickinson: Context & Meanings

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Poem in the 1896 Third Series

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Comparing griefs, recognizing other people’s pain, uncertainty about another person’s burden and the persistence of loss.

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“I measure every grief I meet With analytic eyes; I wonder if it weighs like mine, Or has an easier size.”

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.

Source note: “Griefs,” Poems: Third Series (1896), Project Gutenberg #12242. The poem explores comparison and recognition of suffering rather than offering a clinical scale for grief.