I tend to think that much of her work was a snapshot of her emotional state at the time of each writing rather than an orchestrated analysis of the topic. The poem seems to express that life is short and filled with anguish but that something greater is suppose to balance the scales after death. Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies, American Studies, and Comparative Literature. Co-Director, Honors Humanities. Coordinator, Dickinson Electronic Archives Project.
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.