Emily Dickinson

A Wind That Rose

A Wind That Rose - meaning Summary

Solitary Force of Change

The poem portrays an impersonal, solitary wind that does not affect the usual outward signs of nature but moves inwardly, engaging itself. Its action awakens a lone, almost paradoxical delight tied to separation. That pleasure is framed as a restoring, arctic confidence connected to the unseen. The poem suggests a quiet, internal transformation brought by a remote natural force rather than by social or visible change.

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A Wind that rose Though not a Leaf In any Forest stirred But with itself did cold engage Beyond the Realm of Bird – A Wind that woke a lone Delight Like Separation’s Swell Restored in Arctic Confidence To the Invisible –

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