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Can someone give me a summary and analysis of this emily dickinson poem?
‘Tis Opposites — entice –
Deformed Men — ponder Grace –
Bright fires — the Blanketless –
The Lost — Day’s face –
The Blind — esteem it be
Enough Estate — to see –
The Captive — strangles new –
For deeming — Beggars — play –
To lack — enamor Thee –
Tho’ the Divinity –
Be only
Me –
I can get you started a little here. Dickinson very often (and here) starts us off with a general statement, or summary, of her main point.
Here, it’s “‘Tis opposites entice.” “To entice” means to attract by arousing desire. Everything else in the poem is an example of this, beginning with the observation that deformed people are lured to the possibility of being beautiful and graceful.
The hard work in this poem, as usual for Dickinson, is to untangle the oddly constructed sentences and to see through the words that have multiple meanings.
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