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    Power is a familiar yet ever-present force in our lives, like an abyss beside us in every situation. We can only escape its reach when our consciousness and physical form take their final look at the world, and if in that moment we disprove the finality of death, then we may have eluded power's grasp. This poem explores the idea of power as the possibility of extinction that lurks beside us at every moment, which we can only evade if death does not prove to be truly final.

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    Power is a familiar yet ever-present force in our lives, like an abyss beside us in every situation. We can only escape its reach when our consciousness and physical form take their final look at the world, and if in that moment we disprove the finality of death, then we may have eluded power's grasp. This poem explores the idea of power as the possibility of extinction that lurks beside us at every moment, which we can only evade if death does not prove to be truly final.

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    Analysis: " Power Is A Familiar Growth - " by Emily Dickinson

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    Power is a familiar yet ever-present force in our lives, like an abyss beside us in every situation. We can only escape its reach when our consciousness and physical form take their final look at the world, and if in that moment we disprove the finality of death, then we may have eluded power's grasp. This poem explores the idea of power as the possibility of extinction that lurks beside us at every moment, which we can only evade if death does not prove to be truly final.

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    "Power is a familiar growth --" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

    Power is a familiar growth -- [1] Not foreign -- not to be -- [2] Beside us like a bland Abyss [3] In every company -- [4] Escape it -- there is but a chance -- [5] When consciousness and clay [6] Lean forward for a final glance -- [7] Disprove that and you may -- [8]
    Poem 1238 [F1287] "Power is a familiar growth" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

    This 'power' which is no stranger to us and is not something which belongs only to the future may be the possibility of extinction at any moment of our lives, an 'Abyss' beside us in 'every company,' however 'bland' the moment may have seemed. Our only chance of escaping it is when our mind and body give 'a final glance' to this world at the moment of death, for if we then 'disprove' that that glance is final, we may have escaped extinction. Although Emily states that 'power' is a 'familiar growth,' 'power' is not a familiar word in her poems. The only entry under 'power' in Johnson's index is this poem.
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