The Beggar Lad Dies Early
poem 717
The Beggar Lad Dies Early - meaning Summary
Poverty and Spiritual Solace
The poem presents a brief, compassionate portrait of a poor child who dies young. Earthly life offers coldness, neglect and insufficient charity, while the social world bows and passes by. Dickinson shifts to a consoling afterlife image: in heaven the child is received among "Redeemed Children," previous suffering forgotten and small, pleading hands raised in adoration to a compassionate presence that never denies the ragged or needy.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Beggar Lad dies early It’s Somewhat in the Cold And Somewhat in the Trudging feet And haply, in the World The Cruel smiling bowing World That took its Cambric Way Nor heard the timid cry for Bread Sweet Lady Charity Among Redeemed Children If Trudging feet may stand The Barefoot time forgotten so The Sleet the bitter Wind The Childish Hands that teased for Pence Lifted adoring them To Him whom never Ragged Coat Did supplicate in vain
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