The World Feels Dusty
poem 715
The World Feels Dusty - meaning Summary
Comfort Over Grand Honors
Dickinson contrasts ceremonial honors with intimate, practical comfort at life's end. Public symbols like flags feel inadequate and "dry"; what really soothes is small, personal kindness — a fan stirred by a friend — which refreshes like rain. The speaker asks to be the one to bring such relief, preferring to fetch humble, restorative balms and dew rather than attend to grand, empty pomp. The tone is quietly practical and compassionate.
Read Complete AnalysesThe World feels Dusty When We stop to Die We want the Dew then Honors taste dry Flags vex a Dying face But the least Fan Stirred by a friend’s Hand Cools like the Rain Mine be the Ministry When they Thirst comes And Hybla Balms Dews of Thessaly, to fetch
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