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dickinson poetry
Title: dickinson poetry
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 347 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
dickinson poetry
Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers
This poem, one of Dickinson's best-known works, contrasts the qualities
of stillness with those of life. In the first stanza she emphasizes the
timelessness of death; the "meek members of the resurrection" sleep in their
coffins untouched by dawn or noon. They are sealed in, closed off from time
and the world, by the oppressive weight of rafter and roof. The second stanza
lists some of the joys of a …showed first 75 words of 347 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 347 total…who have true "sagacity"
or wisdom.
The two readings do not contradict each other, however; rather the poet
seems to be saying that people who are blinded by a narrow religion suffer
twice. They cannot be aware of the realities of the world when they are alive,
for they will not let themselves see what is really happening; and when they
are dead, they will never have the chance to make up for their mistake.
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