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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 128.
Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Comment 6 of 6, added on January 24th, 2008 at 2:33 AM.
I have to disagree with Ryan. I see nothing in this poem that suggests that Dickinson feels herself to have present access to the kind of spiritual freedom she is looking for. This poem is an appeal to God (or whatever higher being is responsible for creating the world. She wants to understand the nature of... well nature. She wants connection, enlightenment, and the unashamed joy that nature exhibits. "Who counts the wampum of the night To see that none is due?" Wampum is an Indian currency of white beads. Even the money in the poem is an article of nature. She wonders who preserves the order of the world.
In the last stanza she establishes herself as trapped, within the limits of a mortal body and/or a limited mind. However, this state will not last. Someday she will obtain freedom (death) and be given the implements to fly away from pomposity, or false assumptions of human importance.
Britnifer from United States
Comment 5 of 6, added on February 18th, 2006 at 8:11 AM.
I wish I lived in the period when Emily was alife so that I could try to contact and meet her...and..who...knows....make love with her..just imagination
Aldo from Italy
Comment 4 of 6, added on February 8th, 2006 at 7:21 PM.
This poem is not what not about emilys death or god it is related to transcendentalist and romantic ideas. She has a flagon (beer glass) full of "nature" which allows her to tanscend into a spiritual ecstacy of natures devine over soul. She wonders how many times the animals experience this drunkness of nature. Nature is free to experience, there is nothing that set it up how it is. It is there to experience. Man and nature in one. Society and church (albane)confine ones spirit and make them not able to experience this drunkenness of nature.
Ryan from United States
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I have to disagree with Ryan. I see nothing in this poem that suggests that Dickinson feels herself to have present access to the kind of spiritual freedom she is looking for. This poem is an appeal to God (or whatever higher being is responsible for creating the world. She wants to understand the nature of... well nature. She wants connection, enlightenment, and the unashamed joy that nature exhibits. "Who counts the wampum of the night To see that none is due?" Wampum is an Indian currency of white beads. Even the money in the poem is an article of nature. She wonders who preserves the order of the world.
In the last stanza she establishes herself as trapped, within the limits of a mortal body and/or a limited mind. However, this state will not last. Someday she will obtain freedom (death) and be given the implements to fly away from pomposity, or false assumptions of human importance.
Britnifer from United States