"Take all away " By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Take all away [1] The only thing worth larceny[2] Is left the Immortality [3]
Poem 1365 [F1390] "Take all away" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

This poem is part of a letter sent to Thomas Higginson (L457) in the spring of 1876, nearly two years after the death of Emily's father. The poem follows the sentence, 'When I think of my Father's lonely Life and his lonelier Death, there is this redress.' The 'redress,' says the poem, is that when all earthly things have been lost, there is still left 'the only thing worth' stealing 'Immortality' in heaven. In a letter (L471) to her cousins a few months later she could say, 'I dream about father every night, always a different dream, and forget what I am doing daytimes, wondering where he is.'
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