It Makes No Difference Abroad
poem 620
It Makes No Difference Abroad - meaning Summary
Nature's Indifferent Continuity
The poem observes that natural life goes on unchanged by human crises. Seasons, blossoms, brooks and birds continue their patterns regardless of judgment, punishment or historical suffering. Dickinson contrasts religious and social calamities with the small, relentless economy of the bee, for whom separation from its rose is the only real sorrow. The effect is to highlight nature's indifference and to relativize human notions of catastrophe.
Read Complete AnalysesIt makes no difference abroad The Seasons fit the same The Mornings blossom into Noons And split their Pods of Flame Wild flowers kindle in the Woods The Brooks slam all the Day No Black bird bates his Banjo For passing Calvary Auto da Fe and Judgment Are nothing to the Bee His separation from His Rose To Him sums Misery
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