Some we see no more, Tenements of Wonder 1
Occupy to us though perhaps to them
Simpler are the Days than the Supposition
Leave us to presume
That oblique Belief which we call Conjecture 5
Grapples with a Theme stubborn as Sublime
Able as the Dust to equip its feature
Adequate as Drums
To enlist the Tomb.
Occupy to us though perhaps to them
Simpler are the Days than the Supposition
Leave us to presume
That oblique Belief which we call Conjecture 5
Grapples with a Theme stubborn as Sublime
Able as the Dust to equip its feature
Adequate as Drums
To enlist the Tomb.
(F.1210/J.1221)
[1] see no more, Wonder:: a hint on dreams.
[2] to us, to them:: dreams occupy us while we are sleeping; dreams belong to us.
[3] Supposition:: Dickinson's view on interpreting dreams.
[5] Conjecture:: the interpretation of signs or omens; interpretation of dreams (OED n. 1).
[6] Theme stubborn as Sublime:: a strong belief on the analysis of dreams.
[7] Dust, equip:: dust-like dreams being interpreted by the oneirocritics as something powerful.
[8, 9] Drums, enlist the Tomb:: it's similar to necromancy.
Cicero tells one or two pertinent stories, by the transcription of which the juggling, ambiguous mode of the oneirocritic may be pleasantly exposed. . . . 'Do not the conjectures of the interpreters of dreams rather indicate the subtlety of their own talents than any natural sympathy and correspondence in the nature of things?' ─ The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams (1865)
And Cardan, who dreamed that he discoursed with his dead father in the moon, made thereof no mortal interpretation; and even to dream that we are dead, was no condemnable phantasm in old Oneirocriticism, as having a signification of liberty, vacuity from cares, exemption and freedom from troubles unknown unto the dead. ─ Miscellaneous works of Sir Thomas Browne (1831)
