As imperceptibly as grief Summary & Analysis
by Emily Dickinson

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"As imperceptibly as grief" is Emily Dickinson's meditation on the nature of time. It suggests that people don't always notice the way that everything undergoes gradual change, even as nothing in life stays still and death is always lurking in the background. As with most of Dickinson's roughly 1800 poems, this one was not published during her lifetime. The poem contains many of Dickinson's most notable traits, including an apparent simplicity masking rigorous, complex thought and a deep questioning of what it means to be alive. Like most of her poems, it is written in common meter.

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