So the Eyes Accost and Sunder
poem 752
So the Eyes accost and sunder In an Audience Stamped occasionally forever So may Countenance Entertain without addressing Countenance of One In a Neighboring Horizon Gone as soon as known
loss
lyric poem
haunting
austere
So the Eyes Accost and Sunder - meaning Summary
Gaze That Divides and Leaves
The poem reflects on the way a look can both confront and separate people. Dickinson describes eyes that "accost and sunder," creating a momentary, formal audience in which faces register one another without true engagement. Recognition is brief and distant, like a neighboring horizon: present yet receding. The poem captures social estrangement and the fleeting nature of acquaintance within ordinary encounters.
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