While It Is Alive
poem 491
While It Is Alive - meaning Summary
Love as Living Bond
Dickinson presents love as a vital, indivisible union that cannot be severed while lovers share life, breath, and blood. She challenges the idea of separation, asserting that love extends beyond mortality: it resembles life stretched longer and behaves like death that nevertheless participates in resurrection. In this view love actively revives what is inert, scooping up dust and proclaiming life, making love both enduring bond and animating force.
Read Complete AnalysesWhile it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood Under one Sacrament Show me Division can split or pare Love is like Life merely longer Love is like Death, during the Grave Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection Scooping up the Dust and chanting Live!
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