Have Any Like Myself
poem 736
Have Any Like Myself - meaning Summary
Spring Reveals Hidden Villages
The poem describes a speaker’s annual, imaginative observation in March of new houses and a possible church that appear like villages on a hill. Dickinson explores perception and existence: these structures seem real when observed but absent otherwise, raising questions about how observation or seasonal attention makes things present. The speaker preserves the illusion by avoiding the place except in March, treating sight and attention as creators of reality.
Read Complete AnalysesHave any like Myself Investigating March, New Houses on the Hill descried And possibly a Church That were not, We are sure As lately as the Snow And are Today if We exist Though how may this be so? Have any like Myself Conjectured Who may be The Occupants of the Adobes So easy to the Sky ‘Twould seem that God should be The nearest Neighbor to And Heaven a convenient Grace For Show, or Company Have any like Myself Preserved the Charm secure By shunning carefully the Place All Seasons of the Year, Excepting March ’Tis then My Villages be seen And possibly a Steeple Not afterward by Men
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