Just lost, when I was saved! (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- First Published: 1891
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Religion, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Resurrection, Eternity
Dickinson wrote this poem between 1860 and 1862, if one accepts the Johnson chronology. Her sister included it among the small selection of poems published after the poet's death. It appears that the title “Called Back” was appended based on a note the poet had written to her cousins on the day before her death. Perhaps she was inspired by the sudden conviction she was recovering that affects many terminally ill people, or (equally likely) she did not want her cousins to worry. In any event, she wrote, “Little cousins,—Called Back. Emily.”
Dickinson's poems often focus...
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