as imperceptibly as grief

Question 1

when

Answer 1

1866

Question 2

who

Answer 2

Emily Dickinson
- recluse
- lived near a graveyard
- parents died 2 months after poem

Question 3

lapsed

Answer 3

as imperceptibly as grief summer lapsed away
- to gradual to be noticed, irrelevance
- summer ends and grief too
- short = simplicity

Question 4

dusk

Answer 4

dusk grew early in the morning foreign shone
- darkness, grief fades as morning comes
- life and death are a cycle
- foreign = strange and odd feeling

Question 5

harrowing

Answer 5

harrowing grace
- sinister oxymoron that seem ominous
- something pleasant may be upsetting

Question 6

another word for betrayal

Answer 6

perfidy - capitalised to show abstract concepts and humanising these feelings

Question 7

form and structure

Answer 7

dashes slow pace = reflectionist
transition of seasons
disjointed and cofused

Question 8

escape

Answer 8

escape into the beautiful.
- hollowness after grief
- end of grief may be positive
- full stop, only one = finality