Of Nearness to Her Sundered Things
poem 607
Of Nearness to Her Sundered Things - meaning Summary
Nearness to Departed Things
The poem depicts moments when the soul feels unusually close to the dead, as buried presences seem to inhabit familiar rooms and return in vivid, childlike forms. Memory and imagination restore vanished companions and stolen years, so appearances greet the living with warmth. The closing turn suggests a reversal: the departed appear to have remained, and it is they who mourn the living. Themes align with Dickinson's recurring focus on death and loss.
Read Complete AnalysesOf nearness to her sundered Things The Soul has special times When Dimness looks the Oddity Distinctness easy se ems The Shapes we buried, dwell about, Familiar, in the Rooms Untarnished by the Sepulchre, The Mouldering Playmate comes In just the Jacket that he wore Long buttoned in the Mold Since we old mornings, Children played Divided by a world The Grave yields back her Robberies The Years, our pilfered Things Bright Knots of Apparitions Salute us, with their wings As we it were that perished Themself had just remained till we rejoin them And ’twas they, and not ourself That mourned.
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