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.
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