Context

• Who wrote As Imperceptibly as Grief?

  Emily Dickinson- An American Poet
• Emily Dickinson only attended school for one year.
• She rarely ever left her house to see people but few friends and family came to visit her in her own home.

  The people that were in contact with her had very great influence on her and her poetry.
• Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world, however she did spend a lot of time with her family.
• The house she lived in was built next to a graveyard and her window faced the cemetery which was where 5 of her school friends were buried after they had died from conusmption.
• Dickinson inherited a fascination with the subject of death, and her poem examines the end of summer in terms of loss, comparing it directly to the sense of regret and loss that comes with the death of a loved one.