An English Breeze
An English Breeze - meaning Summary
Breeze as Divine Summons
Dickinson presents a lively, personified breeze that animates the rural landscape and urges human movement. The breeze "talks" through corn, kites, clouds, and trees, linking scattered elements into a single traveling force. Its motion becomes a spiritual summons: God calls people out of idle ease to travel and engage with the day. The poem’s tone is brisk and affirmative, using motion and sound to suggest renewed purpose and communal activity acrossEngland’s roads and fields.
Read Complete AnalysesUP with the sun, the breeze arose, Across the talking corn she goes, And smooth she rustles far and wide Through all the voiceful countryside. Through all the land her tale she tells; She spins, she tosses, she compels The kites, the clouds, the windmill sails And all the trees in all the dales. God calls us, and the day prepares With nimble, gay and gracious airs: And from Penzance to Maidenhead The roads last night He watered. God calls us from inglorious ease, Forth and to travel with the breeze While, swift and singing, smooth and strong She gallops by the fields along.
Feel free to be first to leave comment.