Emily Dickinson

To Lose One’s Faith Surpass

poem 377

To Lose One’s Faith Surpass - meaning Summary

Faith's Irreplaceable Loss

This short lyric argues that losing faith is a graver loss than losing material wealth. Dickinson suggests estates can be restored but belief, given with life, is unique and fragile. A single doubt or rupture can erase that inner resource and reduce existence to spiritual poverty. The poem frames faith as an irreplaceable inheritance whose loss fundamentally diminishes being.

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To lose one’s faith surpass The loss of an Estate Because Estates can be Replenished faith cannot Inherited with Life Belief but once can be Annihilate a single clause And Being’s Beggary

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