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Emily Dickinson - The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea

The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea --
Forgets her own locality --
As I -- toward Thee --

She knows herself an incense small --
Yet small -- she sighs -- if All -- is All --
How larger -- be?

The Ocean -- smiles -- at her Conceit --
But she, forgetting Amphitrite --
Pleads -- "Me"?

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The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea - Comments and Information

Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 284. The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955

Comment 1 of 1, added on September 10th, 2005 at 11:23 PM.

The poet expresss a certain irreverance when for the drop she wrestles and pleads not to accept the place in the organiztion of things, but this is very human for we are all all not at rest when seeing ourselves in retrospect. The following poem expresses the organization of the heirarchy.

The Heirarchy

Great systems have smaller systems
That feed on divinity
Smaller sytems have lesser systems
And so on to infinity

Shimon Weinroth

Shimon Weinroth from Israel

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