Emily Dickinson

How Well I Knew Her Not

poem 837

How Well I Knew Her Not - meaning Summary

Belated Recognition of Absence

This short poem captures a sudden, painful realization about someone the speaker never truly knew. The speaker reflects that not knowing this person was once a prospective blessing, but that distance now leaves pain close at hand. It compresses regret and the sting of missed intimacy into a few images, suggesting how absence and imagined possibility can turn into immediate emotional hurt.

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How well I knew Her not Whom not to know has been A Bounty in prospective, now Next Door to mine the Pain.

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