In Falling Timbers Buried
poem 614
In Falling Timbers Buried - meaning Summary
Buried, Unnoticed, Death's Grace
The poem depicts a man buried alive amid routine digging, emphasizing the eerie separation between his inner life and others' external labor. Dickinson frames the rescue or recognition as impossible; efforts proceed obliviously until the man dies. The last stanza generalizes: efforts often fail and the world is ungrateful, yet death appears as a final, merciful release. The tone balances horror, resignation, and a bleak consolation.
Read Complete AnalysesIn falling Timbers buried There breathed a Man Outside the spades were plying The Lungs within Could He know they sought Him Could They know He breathed Horrid Sand Partition Neither could be heard Never slacked the Diggers But when Spades had done Oh, Reward of Anguish, It was dying Then Many Things are fruitless ‘Tis a Baffling Earth But there is no Gratitude Like the Grace of Death
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