Experience Is the Angled Road
poem 910
Experience Is the Angled Road - meaning Summary
Experience Vs. Intellect
The poem contrasts lived experience with rational intellect. Dickinson suggests that the mind paradoxically prefers the "angled road" of experience, assuming it will guide. In truth, experience complicates human discipline: it forces individuals to confront choices and accept a preappointed pain. The poem presents experience as a deceptive guide that shapes moral responsibility by making people choose themselves and bear the consequences.
Read Complete AnalysesExperience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By Paradox the Mind itself Presuming it to lead Quite Opposite How Complicate The Discipline of Man Compelling Him to Choose Himself His Preappointed Pain
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