Peace Is a Fiction of Our Faith
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Peace Is a Fiction of Our Faith - meaning Summary
Peace as Imagined
The short poem asserts that peace is an imagined comfort tied to faith rather than an assured reality. Dickinson uses the image of winter bells to show how communal signs of calm can actually erase or obscure a neighbor who never truly arrived. The lines suggest absence and the fragility of human connection, implying that rituals and sounds can mask voids rather than produce genuine peace.
Read Complete AnalysesPeace is a fiction of our Faith The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never did alight.
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