Besides This May
poem 977
Besides This May - meaning Summary
Another May Beyond
The poem contrasts the present spring with the existence of "Another" May, suggesting a belief in a further, better realm beyond ordinary life. Outsiders speculate about that otherness, but those who "knew" Him—implying intimate knowledge of a divine figure—experience it as a living reality. Dickinson presents a communal vision in which both saints and ordinary neighbors inhabit or "keep" that perpetual May, so spiritual certainty comes less from abstract theorizing than from relational knowing and shared practice.
Read Complete AnalysesBesides this May We know There is Another How fair Our Speculations of the Foreigner! Some know Him whom We knew Sweet Wonder A Nature be Where Saints, and our plain going Neighbor Keep May!
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