Arrangement and Signification

 

(“The Heart asks Pleasure — first —”)

by Emily Dickinson
  
The Heart asks Pleasure first
And then — Excuse from Pain
And then — those little Anodynes
That deaden suffering
 
And then — to go to sleep
And then — if it should be
The will of it’s Inquisitor
The privilege to die
 

 
Green indicates atemporal breaks
Blue indicates where metaphorical language changes to literal language

 

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