To Interrupt His Yellow Plan
poem 591
To Interrupt His Yellow Plan - meaning Summary
Sun Indifferent to Disturbance
Dickinson contrasts the calm, purposeful activity of the sun with human-sized fuss and chaotic weather. The sun remains focused on large-scale work—stimulating earth, magnetizing the sea, holding astronomy in place—while small disturbances like snow or a buzzing bee seem momentous to observers. The poem suggests perspective: what feels urgent and loud to us is negligible against cosmic steadiness, and our self-importance inflates minor events into "thunder."
Read Complete AnalysesTo interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere And even when the Snow Heaves Balls of Specks, like Vicious Boy Directly in His Eye Does not so much as turn His Head Busy with Majesty ‘Tis His to stimulate the Earth And magnetize the Sea And bind Astronomy, in place, Yet Any passing by Would deem Ourselves the busier As the Minutest Bee That rides emits a Thunder A Bomb to justify
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