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Emily Dickinson - He fumbles at your Soul

He fumbles at your Soul
As Players at the Keys
Before they drop full Music on --
He stuns you by degrees --
Prepares your brittle Nature
For the Ethereal Blow
By fainter Hammers -- further heard --
Then nearer -- Then so slow
Your Breath has time to straighten --
Your Brain -- to bubble Cool --
Deals -- One -- imperial -- Thunderbolt --
That scalps your naked Soul --

When Winds take Forests in the Paws --
The Universe -- is still --

Added: on October 11th, 2004 at 3:42 PM | Viewed: 5721 times | Comments and analysis of He fumbles at your Soul by Emily Dickinson Comments (3)


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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 315. He fumbles at your Soul
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955

Comment 3 of 3, added on August 18th, 2007 at 12:27 AM.

Although every poem is open to interpretation, i feel that perhaps Maureen had missed the true meaning of this poem, i believe it is a desparate out cry of emotion on the part of Dickinson, regarding her frustration with a lover who is inconsitent in his affection, and is therefore less a lover but more an unskilled pianist "fumbling" upon the keys of her soul, taking some form of gratification from it, completly unaware of the pain he is causing to her

Eoin from Ireland
Comment 2 of 3, added on December 9th, 2005 at 2:49 PM.

I think this poem is about Emily's struggles with faith. Despite all her resistance, she cannot seem to ward off the work of God. Ultimately she rejects Him, but His power is still overwhelming.

maureen from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on October 11th, 2004 at 3:42 PM.

the poem is really good. i know emily may not have been a famous poet, but she should've been because her poems are good.

Jasmine Tsukino from United States

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