Teddy's Essay

5/5/09

Teddy

Mr. Salsich

Room 2

Parting:

An Essay

            Emily Dickinson wrote a poem about parting in her life and what parting is. In Emily Dickinson’s at “parting is all we know of heaven, /and all we need of hell.” Parting is a part of life and a part of death. When we are living, we may part with many things (pets, family, etc.), when we die, we part with everything. Ms. Dickinson writes, “[her] life closed twice before its close.” The two closes in her life might have been her parting with her parents. If her parents died, she would have mourned for them, and her life might have seemed like it was going to end, so she might have counted those points in her life as closing points, like chapters in a book. She just had to say, “Adios.”