Too Little Way the House Must Lie
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Too Little Way the House Must Lie - meaning Summary
Loss Within Intimate Proximity
The poem uses the image of a house to portray how inner life sits barely apart from others. Even when one holds undisputed possession of a heart’s interior, the space between selves is small and precarious. Dickinson suggests that consciousnesses are bound to move apart; intimacy is fragile and separation inevitable, so each mind must "emigrate" and lose the neighbor it once knew.
Read Complete AnalysesToo little way the House must lie From every Human Heart That holds in undisputed Lease A white inhabitant Too narrow is the Right between Too imminent the chance Each Consciousness must emigrate And lose its neighbor once
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