What does Emily Dickinsons poem "He Fumbles At Your Soul," mean to you?
2007-02-17 12:13:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sorry I meant he fumbles at your spirit?
2007-02-17 12:18:59 · update #1
He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees,
Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow,
By fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow
Your breath has time to straighten,
Your brain to bubble cool, --
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.
-Emily Dickinson
2007-02-17 12:24:43 · update #2
my impression was certainly one of life/death and the stuggle of the soul to stay but eventually it must leave.
to me it was death coming and the person fighting/holding on but in the end death will come
2007-02-17 12:42:37 · answer #1 · answered by pixie_proof 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emily Dickinson was preoccupied with death.This is found in much of her poetry.
2007-02-17 13:10:48 · answer #2 · answered by christian b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say out of context. I would say being clumbsy, intentional or not with you in any number of ways, potentialy quite inniconently, as someone who really cares, possibely the oppsite...
2007-02-17 12:24:25 · answer #3 · answered by Jonathan C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the role of God in a person's life.
God goes on and on acting in your life. Finally, he delivers the final thunderbolt that sunders you from life.
2007-02-17 12:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me it means that death is slow and cruel. And that living on can sometimes be more cruel.
2007-02-17 14:11:02 · answer #5 · answered by Caeli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's written about god's hand in our journey to death. rsearch her personal life for a greater unerstanding.
2007-02-17 12:34:02 · answer #6 · answered by iammsblue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot.
2007-02-17 12:16:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-17 12:17:21 · answer #8 · answered by James H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋