"My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close"

My life closed twice before its close-
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

In Emily Dickinson's poem, "My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close" the poet uses literary devices such as personification and caesuras.
Dickinson personifies the speakers life. She does so when she says the life closed, and that it can see. She also personifies immortality by giving it the human characteristic of unveiling something. She uses caesuras to put emphasis on the previous line that the speaker states.

Dickinson's central purpose of the poem is death and what it means to her. Most of her poems discuss death but they all present it differently. "My life closed wice before its close," presents death or in this poem 'immortality' to be secretive. After passing, she feels that her life is still not completely over. She also states that parting with ourselves is 'all we know of heaven and all we need of hell'. She points out our comfort with parting with the earth if one goes to heaven, but the fear of parting if one goes to hell.

This poem does not have a strong impact on me. However, I do appreciate the last 2 lines in the second stanza. They make a valid point of how people feel about death.