Emily and Frazar | "It feels a shame to be Alive" | DICKINSON Season 3

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Like so much else in Dickinson, the relationship with Frazar Stern has it basis in history.
Dickinson wrote this poem to honor a friend who died in the Civil War. For a long time it was considered Dickinson's only poem to directly address the Civil War, but thanks to modern, frequently feminist criticism, Emily Dickinson is increasingly considered an important Civil War Poet.
It is surprising that this poem was not included in Dickinson.
When I was small, a Woman died -
When I was small, a Woman died -
Today - her Only Boy
Went up from the Potomac -
His face all Victory
To look at her - How slowly
The Seasons must have turned
Till Bullets clipt an Angle
And He passed quickly round -
If pride shall be in Paradise -
Ourself cannot decide -
Of their imperial Conduct -
No person testified -
But, proud in Apparition -
That Woman and her Boy
Pass back and forth, before my Brain
As even in the sky -
I'm confident, that Bravoes -
Perpetual break abroad
For Braveries, remote as this
In yonder Maryland -