as imperceptibly as grief

• the themes in this poem are time passing and nature
• "as twilight long begun"
• "our summer made her light escape into the beautiful"
• "the dusk drew earlier in"
• "a courteous yet harrowing grace"
• "as imperceptibly as grief the summer lapsed away"
• the title represents the gradual loss of something you love
• Dickinson lived next to a graveyard
• the poem was written before medicines were developed so life expectancy was short
• the poem shows Dickinsons feelings about death and how she is not saddened by it
• "or nature spending with herself"
• "as a guest that would be gone-"