Me! Come! My Dazzled Face

Me! Come! My Dazzled Face - meaning Summary

Longing for Posthumous Recognition

A speaker imagines arriving in a radiant afterlife and feeling dazzled and newly receptive to welcome. The poem turns away from doctrinal reward toward a human desire: to be noticed and remembered by the blessed. The speaker’s holiday is others’ memory of them; their paradise is the fame that pronounces their name. Dickinson compresses mortality, longing, and the need for posthumous recognition into brief, eager lines.