It’s Easy to Invent a Life
poem 724
It’s Easy to Invent a Life - meaning Summary
Creation as Casual Act
The poem presents a wry meditation on creation: life is easy to "invent," because God routinely creates and revises the world. Dickinson contrasts divine authority with playful spontaneity, suggesting that what seems permanent is subject to erasure or alteration. The speaker observes a calm, impersonal plan that inserts suns and omits humans, framing existence as an ongoing, pragmatic process rather than a single, solemn act of origin.
Read Complete AnalysesIt’s easy to invent a Life God does it every Day Creation but the Gambol Of His Authority It’s easy to efface it The thrifty Deity Could scarce afford Eternity To Spontaneity The Perished Patterns murmur But His Perturbless Plan Proceed inserting Here a Sun There leaving out a Man
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