Artemesia,

I'm interested that you think Dickinson's poem is about Lincoln. Is there evidence about this? Were you thinking of it in correspondence to Whitman's elegy on Lincoln?

I think your poem also underlines something very interesting about dickinson--how much her meter contributes to the tone of her poems. When the same theme is recast in iambic pentameter as is the case in most of your poem, the mood is much slower, more contemplative and less urgent.

BTW, I have reported blahblah's post as abuse and it should be removed quickly.