Emily Dickinson

I Send Two Sunsets

poem 308

I Send Two Sunsets - meaning Summary

Modest Works, Private Value

The speaker imagines a friendly rivalry with Day (or the sun), each producing sunsets. The speaker claims to have finished two small sunsets and a few stars while Day made one larger, grander sunset. The poem frames modest, portable creations as preferable to a single impressive work, suggesting personal, intimate accomplishments can be more useful or meaningful than public grandeur.

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I send Two Sunsets Day and I in competition ran I finished Two and several Stars While He was making One His own was ampler but as I Was saying to a friend Mine is the more convenient To Carry in the Hand

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