To Be Alive Is Power

To Be Alive Is Power - meaning Summary

Existence as Its Own Power

Dickinson asserts that mere existence is itself a form of power, sufficient without needing additional purpose. The poem elevates being and will: life alone is ‘‘omnipotence enough,’’ and the human capacity to will makes us makers of ourselves. It frames selfhood as both potent and limited, presenting finitude not as weakness but as the condition in which this creative, godlike agency operates.