comment on structure

Grief is the Thing with Feathers is a novella. It opens with a poem by Emily Dickenson in which Dad has altered the key words in the poem, replacing them with the word crow.

The book is then divided into three sections. The first section is titled “Part One: A Lick of Night.” The second section is titled “Part two: Defence of the Nest” and is the longest section. The third and final section is titled “Part Three: Permission to Leave.”