The heart asks pleasure first

Dickinson, Emily

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poem

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

Summary

The narrator delineates the needs of a human heart and soul: "pleasure," relief of pain, and finally, "the liberty to die."

Miscellaneous

First published: 1890

Primary Source

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Publisher

Avenal

Place Published

New York

Edition

1982

Editor

Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson