The Blunder is in estimate.1
Eternity is there
We say, as of a Station-
Meanwhile he is so near
He joins me in my Ramble-5
Divides abode with me-
No Friend have I that so persists
As this Eternity.
Eternity is there
We say, as of a Station-
Meanwhile he is so near
He joins me in my Ramble-5
Divides abode with me-
No Friend have I that so persists
As this Eternity.
(F.1690/J.1684)
[1] Blunder:: omission, ignorance, about Dickinson's poems. in estimate:: she wrote with omission purposely.
[2] Eternity is there:: her eternal mind is in her blunder.
[3] Station:: the body, a contrary to soul. We say as of a Station:: from one body she and he (we) speak.
[4] he:: Dickinson's other self, a male soul.
[5] Ramble:: a wander in writing.
[6, 7] abode, Friend, persists:: a hint on her other self.
[8] Eternity:: words that last forever.