OMG Emily Dickinson "THIS WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH"

[ob2007]

please please help me , i have no clue wat dis poem means, well mayb a lil but still i need help

This World is not Conclusion.
A Species stands beyond—
Invisible, as Music—
But positive, as Sound—
It beckons, and it baffles—
Philosophy—don't know—
And through a Riddle, at the last—
Sagacity, must go—
To guess it, puzzles scholars—
To gain it, Men have borne
Contempt of Generations
And Crucifixion, shown—
Faith slips—and laughs, and rallies—
Blushes, if any see—
Plucks at a twig of Evidence—
And asks a Vane, the way—
Much Gesture, from the Pulpit—
Strong Hallelujahs roll—
Narcotics cannot still the Tooth
That nibbles at the soul—

plz help me i have 2 write an analysis paper on it but i dont understand it at all

[OdeWriter]

Dickinson wrote a lot about death and anels and the afterlife. This one is metaphor rich. She's writing, I believe, about man's inate knowledge that there is something beyond life as we know it on this earth. It's an ode to man's quest for understanding of the afterlife and the existence of a supreme being. It tells us that ultimately we must release our earthly intelligence and prejudices - our "sagacity" - and step into the riddle of death. We look for evidence of the life beyond ... twigs of evidence. Just a few road signs ... Hope it helps.

John

[OdeWriter]

Dickinson wrote a lot about death and anels and the afterlife. This one is metaphor rich. She's writing, I believe, about man's inate knowledge that there is something beyond life as we know it on this earth. It's an ode to man's quest for understanding of the afterlife and the existence of a supreme being. It tells us that ultimately we must release our earthly intelligence and prejudices - our "sagacity" - and step into the riddle of death. We look for evidence of the life beyond ... twigs of evidence. Just a few road signs ... Hope it helps.

John

[summer grace]

Well, her poems are hard to interpret. Just go with your innate sense of what the poem means, and you have got it! I wish I was writting papers about Emily Dickinson's poems rather than other dumb things. But her poems are hard to analyze well, that is true, but if you think about it, think like she would have, it isn't that hard.