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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 823.
Not that We did, shall be the test
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Oct 3 2007
Comment 1 of 1, added on October 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 AM.
Getting past the unusual syntax is the first task in reading much of Dickinson. I this poem she states a simple truth that it is not that we acted according to our powers of volition, but whether we acted in a "righteous" manner, is how our Lord (lord) will judge how our actions met the test of the divine that we are capable of within ourselves.
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Getting past the unusual syntax is the first task in reading much of Dickinson. I this poem she states a simple truth that it is not that we acted according to our powers of volition, but whether we acted in a "righteous" manner, is how our Lord (lord) will judge how our actions met the test of the divine that we are capable of within ourselves.
art chapman from United States