I promise I will connect this all…

Much of my Response 4 involved thinking about how ED characterized Death (yes, capital D) in her letters, and how she spoke of Death as a relief/release. She talked of Death as a means to Heaven and how life after Death was the ultimate safe space, the ultimate home. So, since having recently writing my response thinking about this, I had this idea in my mind when reading all of the poems for today.

I found poem 120 very sweet in its suggestion that Heaven can mean anything to anyone–it is neither static nor extravagant but that it is made of simple pleasures.

With both of these ideas top of my mind, I read poem 121 (and most especially, the ending) as ED suggesting that Sue is her Heaven. ED either does not want to or is not able to give Sue the extravagant things in life, but she does not need to. Sue is her home, she is her heaven.

I just love these ladies.