Dickinson is not always an easy poet to understand, but there are some things in this poem you can get hold of. When a person talks about the "close" of her life, she's referring to the end of her life, to her death. So "My life closed twice before its close" means "I died twice before my death." Obviously, that can't be literally true. It has to mean something like, "During my lifetime I have suffered two painful losses that hit me so hard it was as if I had died." The poem doesn't say what those two big traumas were, but in a poem so full of words connected with death -- "Immortality," "Parting," "heaven," "hell" -- it's probably reasonable to assume that the two losses were the deaths of two people close to her.
Dickinson is not always an easy poet to understand, but there are some things in this poem you can get hold of. When a person talks about the "close" of her life, she's referring to the end of her life, to her death. So "My life closed twice before its close" means "I died twice before my death." Obviously, that can't be literally true. It has to mean something like, "During my lifetime I have suffered two painful losses that hit me so hard it was as if I had died." The poem doesn't say what those two big traumas were, but in a poem so full of words connected with death -- "Immortality," "Parting," "heaven," "hell" -- it's probably reasonable to assume that the two losses were the deaths of two people close to her.
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