Emily Dickinson

The Only News I Know

poem 827

The Only News I Know - meaning Summary

Immortality as Daily News

The poem reframes the speaker’s experience as dominated by the reality of eternal life. Everyday reports and spectacles are replaced by constant bulletins from immortality; encounter and passage are described in terms of God and existence. The speaker implies that temporal news and entertainments are secondary, and promises to report any genuinely new or admirable developments beyond the eternal perspective.

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The Only News I know Is Bulletins all Day From Immortality. The Only Shows I see Tomorrow and Today Perchance Eternity The Only One I meet Is God The Only Street Existence This traversed If Other News there be Or Admirable Show I’ll tell it You

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