Emily Dickinson

My Eye Is Fuller Than My Vase

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My Eye Is Fuller Than My Vase - meaning Summary

Eye Holds More Than Vase

The speaker contrasts inner vision and feeling with outward containers and riches. She imagines her eye holding a cargo of dew that exceeds a vase’s capacity, and claims her heart and sight outweigh distant treasures "East India" might offer. The poem presents love or inward abundance as more capacious and valuable than physical vessels or exotic material goods, privileging emotional and perceptual riches over external objects.

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My Eye is fuller than my vase Her Cargo is of Dew And still my Heart my Eye outweighs East India for you!

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