The Future Never Spoke
poem 672
The Future Never Spoke - meaning Summary
Certainty Arrives as Action
Dickinson's poem argues that the future does not announce itself verbally but makes itself known only through realized events. It insists there are no preparatory signs; what we call news arrives already accomplished, precluding escape or substitute. The future is impersonal and indifferent, its role limited to carrying out fate. The closing image likens its function to delivering a telegram: an unavoidable message rather than a warning or counsel.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Future never spoke Nor will He like the Dumb Reveal by sign a syllable Of His Profound To Come But when the News be ripe Presents it in the Act Forestalling Preparation Escape or Substitute Indifference to Him The Dower as the Doom His Office but to execute Fate’s Telegram to Him
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