Emily Dickinson

Where Thou Art That Is Home

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Where Thou Art That Is Home - meaning Summary

Presence Defines True Home

The poem argues that home and value depend on the beloved’s presence rather than place or status. Luxuries or shame, freedom or bondage, are transformed by intimacy: confinement becomes sweetness and even punishment a sacrament when shared. Conversely, absence turns any setting into woe, and external honors feel meaningless without the beloved. Dickinson uses religious and domestic language to fuse spiritual devotion with personal attachment.

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Where Thou art that is Home Cashmere or Calvary the same Degree or Shame I scarce esteem Location’s Name So I may Come What Thou dost is Delight Bondage as Play be sweet Imprisonment Content And Sentence Sacrament Just We two meet Where Thou art not is Woe Tho’ Bands of Spices row What Thou dost not Despair Tho’ Gabriel praise me Sire

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