A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
A Death blow is a Life blow to Some Who till they died, did not alive become -- Who had they lived, had died but when They died, Vitality begun.
Emily Dickinson
A Death blow is a Life blow to Some Who till they died, did not alive become -- Who had they lived, had died but when They died, Vitality begun.
Dickinson zeroes in on a strange reversal: for certain people, the moment of death isn’t an ending but a kind of birth. The opening line insists that a death blow can actually be a life blow—that some individuals only come alive once they’ve stopped breathing.
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