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

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Poem in the 1896 Third Series

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Separation figured as death, grief, mortality, immortality and the limits of what the living speaker can know.

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“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me.”

The speaker treats profound separations as deaths within a still-living life, leaving the final meaning of another separation to the poem's religious-metaphysical horizon.

Source note: “Parting,” Poems: Third Series (1896), Project Gutenberg #12242. The poem is lyric and metaphysical; its language of immortality is not presented as empirical evidence about an afterlife.