“We waited while she passed” and “As We went out and in between her final room” are just some of the moments where Dickinson is able to use “we” in order to camouflage herself amongst the crowd. This further demonstrates that the speaker is not comfortable enough to speak on the topic with a personal standpoint. Not only does the speaker use the pronoun we, she also uses “our” and “us.” In stanza five she states “We waited while she passed- it was a narrow time- Too jostled were Our Souls to speak.” Due to the fact that the speaker is once again speaking for the group and calls the time in which they wait a “narrow time” it goes to show that the time seemed to be stretched out for the handful within the room with the dying
“We waited while she passed” and “As We went out and in between her final room” are just some of the moments where Dickinson is able to use “we” in order to camouflage herself amongst the crowd. This further demonstrates that the speaker is not comfortable enough to speak on the topic with a personal standpoint. Not only does the speaker use the pronoun we, she also uses “our” and “us.” In stanza five she states “We waited while she passed- it was a narrow time- Too jostled were Our Souls to speak.” Due to the fact that the speaker is once again speaking for the group and calls the time in which they wait a “narrow time” it goes to show that the time seemed to be stretched out for the handful within the room with the dying