Emily Dickinson

If Blame Be My Side Forfeit Me

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If Blame Be My Side Forfeit Me - meaning Summary

Loss Worse Than Blame

The speaker insists that personal blame or punishment may fall upon them, but they plead not to be cut off from the beloved. To be separated from that person is presented as a fate worse than any penalty—equivalent to losing one’s faith and sense of home. The poem compresses a moral choice: accept guilt or accept exile from the central human anchor of belief and intimacy.

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If Blame be my side forfeit Me But doom me not to forfeit Thee To forfeit Thee? The very name Is sentence from Belief and House

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