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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 140.
An altered look about the hills
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Comment 1 of 1, added on February 23rd, 2005 at 12:21 AM.
Important words to notice in this poem are "Tyrian", "vermilion", "chanticleer" and "Nicodemus". However, Nicodemus it is better to just note John 3.4 for a reference of Nicodemus. Nicodemus is a Jewish leader who comes to Jesus, asking, "How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
So in the final lines of Dickinson's poem, she is saying that the previous fourteen lines answer Nicodemus's question!
What is the answer? The biggest hint lies in the connotation of being born again (what Nicodemus is referring to) and the hint that Dickinson gives us: "its annual reply."
Think with it!
Jonas from United States
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Important words to notice in this poem are "Tyrian", "vermilion", "chanticleer" and "Nicodemus". However, Nicodemus it is better to just note John 3.4 for a reference of Nicodemus. Nicodemus is a Jewish leader who comes to Jesus, asking, "How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
So in the final lines of Dickinson's poem, she is saying that the previous fourteen lines answer Nicodemus's question!
What is the answer? The biggest hint lies in the connotation of being born again (what Nicodemus is referring to) and the hint that Dickinson gives us: "its annual reply."
Think with it!
Jonas from United States