We outgrow love, like other things by Emily Dickinson
Analysis
"We outgrow love, like other things" is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson gives a bleak outlook on love in this poem. She speaks of how we all outgrow love, put it away in a drawer, and then finally display it in antique shows. One can only imagine how she wrote this after finally getting over someone she loved.
Johnson number: 887
Poem
We outgrow love, like other things We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer -- Till it an Antique fashion shows -- Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
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Nationality
American
Literary Movement
19th Century
Subjects
Love
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Nationality
American
Literary Movement
19th Century
Subjects
Love