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Emily Dickinson Love is anterior to life
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Love is anterior to life,
from https://www.eliteskills.com/c/6964 "... introducing the central idea that love is anterior to life. Dickinson begins by stating that love comes before life and is followed only by death. She then goes on to describe love as the initial force of creation, the starting point for all that exists. Finally, she describes love as the exponent ["exemplifying, explicating"] of breath, suggesting that it is the very thing that gives us life and sustains us."
from https://www.poetryverse.com/emily-dickinson-poems/love-is-anterior-to-life/poem-analysis "Emily Dickinson's "Love is anterior to Life" is a compact yet profound declaration about the nature of love. The poem, just four lines long, asserts love's fundamental and overarching role in existence… "The central theme is undoubtedly love's supreme importance. Dickinson establishes this by placing love outside the conventional timeline of birth and death. Love is "anterior to Life," meaning it precedes existence itself. It is also "Posterior to Death," suggesting that love continues even after life ends. By positioning love before and after the boundaries of life and death, Dickinson argues that love is not merely a part of existence, but a fundamental force that transcends it."
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