Patience Has a Quiet Outer
poem 926
Patience Has a Quiet Outer - meaning Summary
Patience as Restrained Endurance
The poem contrasts an outwardly calm patience with an intense inner struggle. Dickinson suggests that what looks serene is inwardly restless—compared to competing insect forces and a smile sustained despite quivering. Patience becomes an active, strained endurance rather than simple passivity, emphasizing effort, restraint, and a faint sense of futility behind composed appearances.
Read Complete AnalysesPatience has a quiet Outer Patience Look within Is an Insect’s futile forces Infinites between ‘Scaping one against the other Fruitlesser to fling Patience is the Smile’s exertion Through the quivering
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