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Dickinson, Emily - Delight is as the flight Or in the ratio of it
Identifier
000109
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Like all Emily’s poems, full of symbols. There is more symbolism in here than may at first be apparent. Fire and flames are also symbols of spirits and the end of the day – sunset, as we shall see, is death. On death we are supposed to descend to the purple layer first before ascending….
A description of the experience
Delight is as the flight
Or in the ratio of it
As the schools would say
The Rainbow’s way
A skein
Flung coloured after rain
Would suit as bright
Except that flight
Were Aliment
‘If it would last’
I asked the East
When that bent stripe
Struck up my childish
Firmament
And I, for glee
Took rainbows, as the common way
And empty skies
The eccentricity
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Like her the saints retire
In their chapeaux of fire
Martial as she
Like her the evenings steal
Purple and cochineal
After the day
‘Departed’ both they say, gathered away, not found
The source of the experience
Dickinson, EmilyConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
FireScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
GriefLead poisoning
Suppressions
Communing with natureInherited genes
Reducing threats
Commonsteps
References
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson