She Staked Her Feathers Gained an Arc
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She Staked Her Feathers Gained an Arc - meaning Summary
Risk Yields New Freedom
The poem describes a figure who abandons ordinary constraints and takes a daring risk, "staking her Feathers," to gain a new, expansive state. Once criticized or limited by envy and human judgment, she now moves confidently beyond their measure, navigating a vast circumference. The final image links this freedom to both travel and origin: she is at home on the billows, as natural to the sea as the bough of her birth.
Read Complete AnalysesShe staked her Feathers Gained an Arc Debated Rose again This time beyond the estimate Of Envy, or of Men And now, among Circumference Her steady Boat be seen At home among the Billows As The Bough where she was born
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