This Consciousness That Is Aware
poem 822
This Consciousness That Is Aware - meaning Summary
Consciousness Alone with Death
The poem presents consciousness as a solitary, self-contained observer that alone will apprehend death. It frames life as an "experiment" of experience conducted by a single aware self, emphasizing the mind’s adequacy and inscrutability to others. Dickinson stresses existential solitude: the soul is condemned to an inward adventure, accompanied only by its own identity like a lone hound. The tone is philosophical and contemplative about selfhood and mortality.
Read Complete AnalysesThis Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone Is traversing the interval Experience between And most profound experiment Appointed unto Men How adequate unto itself Its properties shall be Itself unto itself and none Shall make discovery. Adventure most unto itself The Soul condemned to be Attended by a single Hound Its own identity.
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