Death is like the insect

Dickinson, Emily

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poem

Annotated by:
Chen, Irene
Aull, Felice
  • Date of entry: May-07-2001

Summary

Death is compared to an "insect / Menacing the tree" in its insidious, covert actions. Although the reader is urged to fight death with whatever means are available, the poet recognizes that some circumstances are beyond hope.

Miscellaneous

First published: 1896

Primary Source

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Publisher

Avenal

Place Published

New York

Edition

1982

Editor

Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson