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I SHALL KNOW WHY, WHEN TIME IS OVER by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: That scalds me now – that scalds me now!
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST - SUFFERING & SACRIFICE; PETER, SAINT (C. 64 A.D.);
I shall know why - when Time is over -

And I have ceased to wonder why -

Christ will explain each separate anguish

In the fair schoolroom of the sky -




He will tell me what "Peter" promised -

And I - for wonder at his woe -
I shall forget the drop of Anguish

That scalds me now - that scalds me now!


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