My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close | Critical Overview
“My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” has been viewed by many critics as a poem about the act, by God or man, of revealing something surprising and not known before. The critic Martha Hale Shackford, writing in the Atlantic Monthly, sees the poem’s speaker as a “voice of tragic revelation.” Shackford explains that Dickinson was not so much a philosopher as she was an observer of life, gifted with the ability to express profound emotions.
Another critic, Conrad Aiken, offers an interesting interpretation of the poem in his book Collected Criticism. He points out...
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