Many Cross the Rhine
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Many Cross the Rhine - meaning Summary
Imagination as Portable Travel
The short lyric compresses travel and exoticism into domestic pleasures: a drink and a cigar stand in for crossing the Rhine and tasting Frankfort. Dickinson frames simple, everyday acts as imaginative transport, suggesting sensory substitution and ironic bravado. The poem playfully contrasts grand geographic names with intimate objects, implying that memory, desire, or affect can conjure distant places within ordinary gestures.
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