The Veins of Other Flowers
poem 811
The Veins of Other Flowers - meaning Summary
Naming Versus Nature's Work
Dickinson contrasts fleeting human naming and grammatical action with nature’s silent, ongoing creativity. The poem uses floral imagery—"veins," "jugular," branches—to link human terms to living structure, then steps back: people pass while Nature endures, creating and combining without speech. It highlights the modesty of human language and effort against an autonomous, continuous natural process that requires no verbal acknowledgment.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Veins of other Flowers The Scarlet Flowers are Till Nature leisure has for Terms As Branch, and Jugular. We pass, and she abides. We conjugate Her Skill While She creates and federates Without a syllable.
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