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Tue 21 Sep, 2004 07:38 pm
I was wondering what the "blonde assassin" means, and what ironies are involved in the poem "Apparently with no surprise. Thank you....
neohorizons, Welcome to A2K. It's always helpful to post the entire poem:
Apparently with no surprise
Emily Dickinson
1624
Apparently with no surprise
To any happy Flower
The Frost beheads it at its play?-
In accidental power?-
The blonde Assassin passes on?-
The Sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another Day
For an Approving God.
I would say the blonde Assassin is the hoary white of killing things, and the whimsical accident of nature.
Emily is a master of slant rhyme.
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