"A Sickness of this World it most occasions"

By Emily Dickinson
[Analysis]
A Sickness of this World it most occasions [1]
When Best Men die. [2]
A Wishfulness their far Condition [3]
To occupy. [4]
A Chief indifference, as Foreign [5]
A World must be [6]
Themselves forsake -- contented, [7]
For Deity. [8]
Poem 1044 [F993]
"A Sickness of this World it most occasions"
Analysis by David Preest
[Poem]
When 'Best Men die,' we mostly feel sick of 'this World.' We want to be with them in their 'far[-off] condition.' But chiefly we feel
indifferent to this world as something foreign, seeing that our best men have contentedly forsaken it 'for [eternal life with] Deity.'
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