Poem 303 (Dickinson)

Hey, radical. Welcome to A2K.

One must really search inside the soul to ascertain the Belle of Amherst's meaning

what it may mean to me, may be the inverse of what it means to you, my friend. but "society" in the terms of upper echelon is definitely not what this lovely and lonely recluse was speaking in her verse.

Her soul selected to write and be alone in the company of giants.

You must read "She Rose to His Requirement".

and I must thank you for drawing me into this thread. I had planned not to be here.

I think that Emily may have wished you to write your own poetry. It's a society of the timid and the powerful.

Re: Poem 303 (Dickinson)


Well...I felt moved to give it a try, I really love a few Dickinson poems, only looked at her seriously the last year or so...

That last stanza makes me think of how the egg is impregnated by one sperm...and then the door is closed so to speak, to all others...Hard to what is alien to itself ever after...

The first stanza tells us this is our Soul...waiting to be awakened perhaps...I think of those Indians who took peyote and then went off to find their "dream"...

What I really think is the Divine Majority is the rest of the Truth that is outside what is revealed to us...and rather like the "age of accountability"...or self awareness, we define what is "us"...and reject what is external to us...this Other we do not respect as Worthy..as ourselves...in our immature state...when we remain like stones...ye rock and stones ye worse than senseless things...

May be TOTALLY out of line, but that is how it struck me, not an ideal situation but something that people go through, on the way to maturity...

I think the stone is broken and softened by time...changed into living flesh.

Thanks for your answers, it helped me a lot. I thought a lot about your suggestions in order to find my own interpretation of the poem, and I finally had a good grade!
So thanks a lot!