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DESPAIR AND FEAR by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DESPAIR / AND FEAR - IS LIKE THE ONE
Last Line: THAT KNOWS IT CANNOT SEE.
Subject(s): DESPAIR; FEAR;
THE difference between despair
And fear, is like the one
Between the instant of a wreck,
And when the wreck has been.

The mind is smooth, -- no motion --
Contented as the eye
Upon the forehead of a Bust,
That knows it cannot see.



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