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Emily Dickinson- In "My life closed twice before its close" what is the speaker waiting to see?

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She writes, “it yet remains to see, if immortality unveil / a third event to me..” She is waiting for her third death, the third time that her heart will break. It is almost as if she expects this to happen.
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