Poem #640: Interpretation :: essays research papers

I cannot fail with YouIt would be LifeAnd Life is over t here__Behind the ShelfThe Sexton keeps the Key toPutting upOur lifeHis PorcelainLike a CupDiscarded of the HousewifeQuaintor BrokeA newer Sevres pleasesOld Ones crackI could not breakwith YouFor One must waitTo shut the Others Gaze downYoucould notAnd ICould I stand byAnd see You blockadeWithout my Right of FrostDeaths privilege?Nor could I risewith YouBecause Your FaceWould put out JesusThat New GraceGlow areaand foreignOn my homesick EyeExcept that You than HeShone closer byTheyd judge UsHowFor Youserved HeavenYou know,Or sought toI could notBecause You saturated SightAnd I had no more EyesFor sordid excellenceAs ParadiseAnd were You lost, I would beThough My consultRang loudest On the Heavenly fameAnd were YousavedAnd Icondemned to beWhere You were notThat selfwere Hell to MeSo We must meet apartYou thereIhereWith just the Door ajarThat Oceans areand PrayerAnd that White SustenanceDespair"I cannot live with You" , by Emily Dickinson, is an emotional poem in which she shares her experiences and thoughts on death and love. Some critics believe that she has written about her struggle with death and her desire to have a relationship with a man whose vocation was ministerial, high-minded Charles Wadsworth. She considers suicide as an option for relieving the pain she endures, but decides against it. The narrator, more than likely Emily herself, realizes that death will leave her even further away from the one that she loves. on that point is a possibility that they will never be together again. "Arguing with herself, Dickinson considers three major resolutions for the frustrations she is seeking to define and to resolve. Each of these resolutions is expressed in prejudicial form living wither her lover, dying with him, and discovering a world beyond nature. Building on this series of negations, Dickinson advances a catalogue of reasons for her covenant with despair, which are two final a nd insufficient. Throughout, she excoriates the social and religious authorities that impede her union, but she remains emotionally unconvinced that she has correctly identified her antagonists." (Pollack, 182)Dickinson begins her poem by saying that she cannot live with her lover because their life together is an object that can only be opened with a key. The Sexton, or church officer in charge of the maintenance of church property, keeps the key. The reverends involvement with God and with a woman at the same time is like a porcelain cup that is easily broken. This is an good example of Personification.