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Dickinson, Emily - The Winters are so short
Identifier
013568
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A pod is a chrysalis – form
Tent and house are also form
The flood was a spiritual purification
Phoebes are birds - occasionally one can hear birds and birdsong quite distinctly in experiences, she is not using the symbolic meaning here
A description of the experience
Emily Dickinson – the Poems of Emily Dickinson
The winters are so short -
I’m hardly justified
In sending all the birds away
And moving into pod
Myself - for scarcely settled
The Phoebes have begun -
And then it’s time to strike my tent
And open house again
It’s mostly interruptions -
My summer is despoiled
Because there was a winter once
And all the cattle starved
And so there was a deluge
And swept the world away
But Ararat’s a legend now
And no one credits Noah