Unto Like Story Trouble Has Enticed Me
poem 295
Unto Like Story Trouble Has Enticed Me - meaning Summary
Martyrdom Inspires Courage
Dickinson imagines herself drawn into a lineage of sufferers and martyrs whose dignity under persecution becomes a model for her own courage. She recalls kin and nameless predecessors who accepted shame, prison, and execution, and she adopts their steadiness, even envisioning a ceremonial, almost martial approach to her own trial. The poem frames personal resolve as imitation of historical sacrifice, ending with an invocation toward light and uplift.
Read Complete AnalysesUnto like Story Trouble has enticed me How Kinsmen fell Brothers and Sister who preferred the Glory And their young will Bent to the Scaffold, or in Dungeons chanted Till God’s full time When they let go the ignominy smiling And Shame went still Unto guessed Crests, my moaning fancy, leads me, Worn fair By Heads rejected in the lower country Of honors there Such spirit makes her perpetual mention, That I grown bold Step martial at my Crucifixion As Trumpets rolled Feet, small as mine have marched in Revolution Firm to the Drum Hands not so stout hoisted them in witness When Speech went numb Let me not shame their sublime deportments Drilled bright Beckoning Etruscan invitation Toward Light
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