The Color of the Grave Is Green
poem 411
The Color of the Grave Is Green - meaning Summary
Outer and Inner Graves
The poem contrasts the visible, seasonal exterior of burial sites with an interior, private grave that is not altered by snow or summer. Dickinson shows how the outer grave can blend into fields or drifts and be marked by small signs like a stone or a daisy, while the inner grave—an emotional or spiritual absence—retains its own color and eludes outward detection, even by those who once knew the person.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Color of the Grave is Green The Outer Grave I mean You would not know it from the Field Except it own a Stone To help the fond to find it Too infinite asleep To stop and tell them where it is But just a Daisy deep The Color of the Grave is white The outer Grave I mean You would not know it from the Drifts In Winter till the Sun Has furrowed out the Aisles Then higher than the Land The little Dwelling Houses rise Where each has left a friend The Color of the Grave within The Duplicate I mean Not all the Snows could make it white Not all the Summers Green You’ve seen the Color maybe Upon a Bonnet bound When that you met it with before The Ferret cannot find
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