Heart! We will forget him!
by Emily Dickinson
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Introducing the Poem
Literary Focus: Personification
Heart! We will forget him!
by Emily Dickinson
Heart! We will forget him!
Introducing the Poem
In this poem, the speaker is trying to minimize her
anguish over a love that has ended.
• She speaks to her heart and urges it to help her
forget the man she loved.
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Heart! We will forget him!
Literary Focus: Personification
Personification is a kind of metaphor in which
something nonhuman is talked about as though
it were human.
Love struck me
with his arrow.
Justice weighed
my case carefully.
Heart! We will forget him!
Literary Focus: Personification
In ”Heart! We will forget him!” the speaker
addresses her heart as if it were a person,
separate from herself.
• In the poem, Dickinson gives her heart the
human ability to listen, act, think, and feel.
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