Emily Dickinson Category

When We Lose Something, We Haven't Lost Everything
Text: Emily Dickinson, poem

In what begins as a love poem, Emily Dickinson’s musings shift to a philosophical reflection upon the nature of loss. And loss, she concludes, is never the whole story. For where there is loss, there was once something had. And where there is something had, there must at some point and in some way be loss. Full essay.