Removed from Accident of Loss
poem 424
Removed from Accident of Loss - meaning Summary
Wealth Beyond Awareness
The poem contrasts two kinds of fortune: loss that does not touch the speaker and unexpected gain that also lies beyond their control. Dickinson presents the narrator as removed from both accidental privation and sudden wealth, using the image of a “Brown Malay” unaware of pearls to show how riches can exist without altering one’s simple life or self-understanding. The tone is quietly observational, noting distance from external changes in fortune.
Read Complete AnalysesRemoved from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days Myself had just to earn Of Riches as unconscious As is the Brown Malay Of Pearls in Eastern Waters, Marked His What Holiday Would stir his slow conception Had he the power to dream That put the Dower’s fraction Awaited even Him
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