my life closed twice before its close by emily dickinson

This poem seemingly has different interpretations according to its appeal to the reader. It strikes the reader not with logic or understanding but with emotion that we could relate to. Frustration. Sadness. Grief. Sorrow. All these add up to what we feel when we lose someone. Either by death or by love, these emotions are a common ground that produces pain in a human being. When we look more closely in the first line, we can see that ‘closed’ and ‘close’ mean different things. The ‘closed’ she was referring to was her past experiences, her loss, her pain and the second ‘closeâ€...