I cannot live with You— (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- First Published: 1890
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance
The Poem
“I cannot live with You—” (the title is not Emily Dickinson’s, since she did not title her poems) is a poem of fifty lines divided into eleven four-line stanzas and a concluding twelfth stanza of six lines. The poem is an unusually long poem for Dickinson. It is written in the first person from the point of view of a speaker addressing a lover.
Structurally, the poem is a list of things the speaker and her lover cannot do together and the reasons why they cannot. In the first three stanzas, the speaker announces to her beloved that she cannot “live”...
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