One Day Is There of the Series
poem 814
One Day Is There of the Series - context Summary
Occasion: Thanksgiving
This short poem is grounded in the occasion of Thanksgiving. Dickinson treats the holiday as partly a communal table ritual and partly an inward, mnemonic event shaped by absence and subtraction. She frames gratitude amid losses and small remembrances, suggesting that what remains in memory defines the day as much as the feast. The tone is reflective rather than celebratory, questioning who or what is honored.
Read Complete AnalysesOne Day is there of the Series Termed Thanksgiving Day. Celebrated part at Table Part in Memory. Neither Patriarch nor Pussy I dissect the Play Seems it to my Hooded thinking Reflex Holiday. Had there been no sharp Subtraction From the early Sum Not an Acre or a Caption Where was once a Room Not a Mention, whose small Pebble Wrinkled any Sea, Unto Such, were such Assembly ‘Twere Thanksgiving Day.
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