The Poets Light but Lamps
poem 883
The Poets Light but Lamps - meaning Summary
Transient Lamps, Enduring Light
Dickinson contrasts the ephemeral role of individual poets with a persistent, vital poetic light that outlives them. Poets act as lamps whose own lives end, but they kindle wicks when the creative spark truly inheres. That enduring light functions like suns whose influence is refracted by each historical lens, so successive ages reinterpret and disseminate a poem’s reach beyond any single author’s lifetime.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Poets light but Lamps Themselves go out The Wicks they stimulate If vital Light Inhere as do the Suns Each Age a Lens Disseminating their Circumference
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