How Happy Is the Little Stone
poem 1510
How Happy Is the Little Stone - meaning Summary
Contentment in Small Things
The poem presents a little stone as a model of contentment and simplicity. The stone "rambles in the Road alone," unconcerned with human ambitions or emergencies, wearing its "elemental Brown" as if given by the universe. Its independence is likened to the sun: it can "associate or glow alone" while simply carrying out an "absolute Decree." Dickinson sketches a quiet philosophy of acceptance and natural being, valuing unselfconscious fulfillment of role over striving, anxiety, or social ambition.
Read Complete AnalysesHow happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn’t care about Careers And Exigencies never fears Whose Coat of elemental Brown A passing Universe put on, And independent as the Sun Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute Decree In casual simplicity
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