The Definition of Beauty Is
poem 988
The Definition of Beauty Is - meaning Summary
Beauty Equals Spiritual Unity
This brief lyric argues that beauty resists analytic definition because it is not a separate quality but identical with the divine. Dickinson rejects a detached, classificatory approach and suggests that any attempt to define beauty misses its essence: beauty and Heaven, or beauty and God, are one. The poem compresses a theological claim into a paradox: definition dissolves where spiritual unity exists.
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