It’s Coming the Postponeless Creature
poem 390
It’s Coming the Postponeless Creature - meaning Summary
Death's Inevitable Arrival
The poem imagines Death as an unstoppable, punctual creature that moves from block to door, selects a latch, and enters familiarly. It greets occupants with recognition, indifferent to friend or enemy, briefly acknowledging them. It transforms households with mourning and cold, removing one person to God. Dickinson compresses mortality into a domestic, intimate visitation that feels ordinary and absolute.
Read Complete AnalysesIt’s coming the postponeless Creature It gains the Block and now it gains the Door Chooses its latch, from all the other fastenings Enters with a You know Me Sir? Simple Salute and certain Recognition Bold were it Enemy Brief were it friend Dresses each House in Crape, and Icicle And carries one out of it to God
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