Perhaps You Think Me Stooping
poem 833
Perhaps You Think Me Stooping - meaning Summary
Humility as Sacred Act
The poem insists that apparent stooping is not humiliation but a humble, sacred act modeled by Christ. Dickinson reframes bending toward death or ritual—sacrament and the grave—as an ennobling process in which love is tested and purified. What looks like dishonor becomes a higher dignity: love made strong through suffering, lowered until it meets death and is then exalted above it.
Read Complete AnalysesPerhaps you think me stooping I’m not ashamed of that Christ stooped until He touched the Grave Do those at Sacrament Commemorative Dishonor Or love annealed of love Until it bend as low as Death Redignified, above?
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