So Has a Daisy Vanished
poem 28
So Has a Daisy Vanished - meaning Summary
A Vanished Flower and Afterlife
Dickinson contemplates a daisy's sudden absence as a gentle suggestion of death and transcendence. The poem treats the flower’s disappearance as a quiet, almost domestic event that implies movement into a paradisal elsewhere. Images of slipping away and blooming in another realm raise questions about continuity between earthly life and presence with God. Tone is calm, curious, and minimally consoling rather than overtly mournful.
Read Complete AnalysesSo has a Daisy vanished From the fields today So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away Oozed so in crimson bubbles Day’s departing tide Blooming tripping flow ing Are ye then with God?
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