Declaiming Waters None May Dread
Declaiming Waters None May Dread - meaning Summary
Quiet Danger Beneath Calm
Dickinson contrasts loud, declaiming waters with deceptively dangerous still waters. She suggests that turbulence is obvious and therefore less threatening, while calmness hides a “fatal” fullness that makes it more perilous. The short poem warns readers not to equate silence or tranquility with safety. Its compact statement functions as a pithy caution about hidden dangers beneath placid surfaces.
Read Complete AnalysesDeclaiming Waters none may dread – But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature – they are full –
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