Emily Dickinson

Do People Moulder Equally

poem 432

Do People Moulder Equally - meaning Summary

Defiant Claim of Immortality

The speaker questions whether all people truly decay the same, presenting a personal, defiant testimony against being dead despite burial or burial imagery. Drawing on Jesus’ reported promise that some "shall not taste of Death," the speaker treats that assurance as literal and immediate proof that death has been overcome. The poem mixes bodily imagery and religious conviction to insist on a present, experiential immortality: the speaker refuses philosophical or scientific doubt and claims direct witness that death is defeated.

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Do People moulder equally, They bury, in the Grave? I do believe a Species As positively live As I, who testify it Deny that I am dead And fill my Lungs, for Witness From Tanks above my Head I say to you, said Jesus That there be standing here A Sort, that shall not taste of Death If Jesus was sincere I need no further Argue That statement of the Lord Is not a controvertible He told me, Death was dead

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