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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