Conjecturing a Climate
poem 562
Conjecturing a Climate - meaning Summary
Imagined Warmth Against Winter
Emily Dickinson contrasts the tangible cold of winter with the mind’s attempt to conjure warmth. The speaker imagines suns and a fictitious country as a psychological remedy, admitting that this fantasy only softens, not removes, the quantitative facts of cold and latitude. The poem is about the limits of imagination as consolation and the poignant awareness that inner invention cannot fully alter external reality.
Read Complete AnalysesConjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns Adds poignancy to Winter The Shivering Fancy turns To a fictitious Country To palliate a Cold Not obviated of Degree Nor erased of Latitude
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