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| Circuit III - (17) So, from the Mould (J-0066) (F-0110) | |||||
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(1) So, from the mould, Scarlet and gold Many a Bulb will rise, (2) Hidden away cunningly From sagacious eyes. (3) So, from cocoon Many a Worm Leap so Highland gay, (4) Peasants like me — Peasants like thee, Gaze perplexedly. ~ Emily Dickinson (Above: the poem as it appeared when it was first published in 1914; below: from Fascicle 5, an original manuscript version, without editing or imposed lineation.) (1) So from the mould, Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise – (2) Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes. (3) So from Cocoon Many a Worm Leap so Highland gay, (4) Peasants like me – Peasants like Thee, Gaze perplexedly! ~ Emily Dickinson   Pop-up slideshow for each line set: (1) Enigma! (2) Enclosure! (3) Immortality! (4) Observation! | |||||
| Commentary adapted from Emily Dickinson's Poems & Letters | |||||
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(1-spring colors)
"How luscious is the dripping of February eaves! It makes our thinking pink." ~ (L #257) | |||||
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"The bulbs are in the sod - the seeds in homes of paper till the sun calls them. It is snowing now . . . ." ~ (L #691) | |||||
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"I was always attached to mud,
because of what it typifies — also perhaps, a child's tie to primeval pies." ~ (L #492) | |||||
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"You and I the secret of the crocus know — let us
chant it softly,'There is no more snow' ~ (J-0822) (F-0030) | |||||
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(1-2) "She slept beneath a tree remembered but by me. I touched her cradle mute — she recognized the foot, put on her carmine suit — and see!" ~ (Sent with a red tulip) (J-0025) (F-0015) | |||||
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(1-4) "Is not an absent friend as mysterious as a bulb in the ground, and is not a bulb the most captivating floral form?" ~ (L #824) | |||||
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(3-4-cocoon riddle) "Drab habitation of whom? Tabernacle or tomb, or dome of worm, or porch of gnome, or some elf's catacomb?" ~ (J-0893) (F-0916) | |||||
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"But an hour in chrysalis to pass, then gay above receding grass, a butterfly to go. [That is], a moment to interrogate, then wiser than a [a judge or] 'surrogate,' the universe to know!" ~ (J-0129) (F-0142) | |||||
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"You are most illustrious and dwell in Paradise. I have never believed the latter to be a superhuman site." ~ (L #391) | |||||
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