What Soft Cherubic Creatures
poem 401
What Soft Cherubic Creatures - meaning Summary
Genteel Piety Made Fragile
The poem observes women presented as delicately sanctified, almost untouchable like plush or a star. Their refined horror of ordinary human nature and shame before deity suggests moral fastidiousness that alienates them from real life. Dickinson treats this sanctity as brittle and common rather than heroic, implying that social religiosity and affectation make redemption fragile and distance people from genuine compassion and human imperfection.
Read Complete AnalysesWhat Soft Cherubic Creatures These Gentlewomen are One would as soon assault a Plush Or violate a Star Such Dimity Convictions A Horror so refined Of freckled Human Nature Of Deity ashamed It’s such a common Glory A Fisherman’s Degree Redemption Brittle Lady Be so ashamed of Thee
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