Emily Dickinson

A Sickness of This World It Most Occasions

A Sickness of This World It Most Occasions - meaning Summary

Mortality and Spiritual Distance

The poem observes a common human response to death among the best people: a sense that the world itself is sick or inadequate. It describes a wistful turning toward an imagined distant condition and a calm indifference to earthly ties. Death is framed as a release or relocation, with the dying becoming reconciled to leaving themselves behind and content to belong to a transcendent Deity.

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A Sickness of this World it most occasions When Best Men die. A Wishfulness their far Condition To occupy. A Chief indifference, as Foreign A World must be Themselves forsake – contented, For Deity.

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