She Sweeps with Many-colored Brooms,
She Sweeps with Many-colored Brooms, - meaning Summary
Dusk as Domestic Act
The poem personifies the sunset as a housewife sweeping the sky with "many-colored brooms," scattering threads and shreds of color across the horizon. Dickinson presents dusk as a domestic, gentle labor that transforms day into night, leaving bright fragments that become stars. The speaker watches this quiet, cyclical work and withdraws when the brooms themselves fade into stars, suggesting a humble, serene view of natural transition.
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