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Robert Frost · December 11th, 2005, 05:36 PM

I guess it's not surprising that, as a poet, Dickinson would write about the power of words. As she notes, a word can be a weapon as deadly as a sword.

The specific word Dickinson focuses on in this poem is "forgot." Whether you be a fallen soldier, as Dickinson seems to envision based on the military imagery and diction in this poem, or a regular person, to be forgotten is a kind of death--if you are forgotten, it's as if you never existed. Unfortunately, the ultimate result of the passage of time is the tendency for all of us to be forgotten.

December 11th, 2005, 05:36 PM	#2 (permalink)
Robert Frost Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 9	Re: There Is A Word by Emily Dickinson I guess it's not surprising that, as a poet, Dickinson would write about the power of words. As she notes, a word can be a weapon as deadly as a sword. The specific word Dickinson focuses on in this poem is "forgot." Whether you be a fallen soldier, as Dickinson seems to envision based on the military imagery and diction in this poem, or a regular person, to be forgotten is a kind of death--if you are forgotten, it's as if you never existed. Unfortunately, the ultimate result of the passage of time is the tendency for all of us to be forgotten.