You Taught Me Waiting with Myself
poem 740
You Taught Me Waiting with Myself - meaning Summary
Waiting, Endurance, Spiritual Reckoning
Dickinson’s poem describes lessons learned through patient endurance and confrontation with mortality. The speaker credits a teacher—perhaps a person or an experience—with instructing them in waiting, in accepting fate, and in an approach to death that is not harsher than life. Yet the speaker also hints at a further discipline or knowledge required for a moral or spiritual reckoning before God. The tone is sober and reflective, registering both resignation and the awareness that surviving hardship does not automatically prepare one for final judgment or divine audience.
Read Complete AnalysesYou taught me Waiting with Myself Appointment strictly kept You taught me fortitude of Fate This also I have learnt An Altitude of Death, that could No bitterer debar Than Life had done before it Yet there is a Science more The Heaven you know to understand That you be not ashamed Of Me in Christ’s bright Audience Upon the further Hand
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