"A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Robert Brothers
Date
Late Autumn, 1882
Metaphor
"A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
Metaphor in Context
Her dying feels to me like many kinds of cold--at times electric, at times benumbing,--then a trackless waste love has never trod...
The letter from the skies, which accompanied yours, was indeed a boon. A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?
(p. 354)
The letter from the skies, which accompanied yours, was indeed a boon. A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?
(p. 354)
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Citation
Letters of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, vol. I (Boston: Robert Brothers, 1894). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
12/31/2010
