Renunciation
Renunciation - meaning Summary
Letting Go as Moral Act
The poem presents renunciation as an active, austere moral choice: a deliberate letting go that sharpens rather than dulls perception. Dickinson frames it as both a piercing virtue and a self-directed choosing, a constriction of immediate sight so a larger function or purpose can prevail. The speaker implies sacrifice and inner justification are necessary to prevent lesser, daily forces from outshining a greater creative or spiritual aim.
Read Complete AnalysesRenunciation is a piercing Virtue The letting go A Presence for an Expectation Not now The putting out of Eyes Just Sunrise Lest Day Day’s Great Progenitor Outvie Renunciation is the Choosing Against itself Itself to justify Unto itself When larger function Make that appear Smaller that Covered Vision Here
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