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LIFE (Complete Poems, Part One, fragment)

I bring an unaccustomed wine
To lips long parching, next to mine,
And summon them to drink.

Crackling with fever, they essay;
I turn my brimming eyes away,
And come next hour to look.

The hands still hug the tardy glass;
The lips I would have cooled, alas!
Are so superfluous cold,

I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.

Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it remained to speak.

And so I always bear the cup
If, haply, mine may be the drop
Some pilgrim thirst to slake…

Importante poetisa norteamericana. Important poet born in Amherst, Massachussetts, 1830,
Nació en Massachusetts en 1830 en el seno de una into a puritan Protestant family from New England.
puritana familia protestante de Nueva Inglaterra. Emily Dickinson studied at the Amherst Institute and at
Estudió en la Academia de Amherst y en el seminario the female seminar at Mount Holyoke. She had a better
femenino de Mount Holyoke. education than any of the women at her time.
La educación de Emily fue mejor que la de las mujeres de Her private life was always hidden.
su época. In her work, she sings her love for an unknown man.
Su vida privada se mantuvo siempre oculta. At thirty, she decides to retire from society.
En su obra canta su amor hacia un hombre desconocido. Till her death in 1886, the only contact with the world
A los 30 años decidió retirarse de la sociedad. she had was through letters.
Hasta su muerte en 1886 su contacto con el mundo fue Only seven poems were published in her lifetime, Emily
sólo epistolar. decided to hide the rest.
En vida publicó sólo siete poemas y decidió ocultar el resto Her poetry is expressed in a very simple language of
de su obra. complex syntax, she shows a great observation of nature
Su poesía se expresa en un lenguaje sencillo, de sintaxis and a rich imagination.
compleja, muestra una gran observación de la naturaleza Her youngest sister, Lavinia, found about 2000 poems
98 y una imaginación muy rica. and was the first compiler of her poetry.
In 1890, Poems was published, being a great success.
Su hermana menor, Lavinia, encontró alrededor de 2000
poesías y fue la primera compiladora de su poesía.
En 1890 se publicó Poemas, que tuvo un gran éxito popular.