How Human Nature dotes
On what it can't detect.
The moment that a Plot is plumbed
Prospective is extinct－
Prospective is the friend [5]
Reserved for us to know
When Constancy is clarified
Of Curiosity－
Of subjects that resist [9]
Redoubtablest is this
Where go we－
Go we anywhere
Creation after this? [13]
On what it can't detect.
The moment that a Plot is plumbed
Prospective is extinct－
Prospective is the friend [5]
Reserved for us to know
When Constancy is clarified
Of Curiosity－
Of subjects that resist [9]
Redoubtablest is this
Where go we－
Go we anywhere
Creation after this? [13]
(F.1440/J.1417)
[1, 2] Human, what, can't detect:: a riddle behind a remote poem that people cannot detect.
[3, 4] Plot, extinct:: a riddle poem solved.
[5] Prospective:: telescope (OED B.n. 2); the action of looking out (OED B.n. 3).
[6] friend, to know:: a tool to see clearly, help us to understand.
[7] Constancy:: all her poems are riddles.
[8] Curiosity:: careful attention to detail; scrupulousness; exactness, accuracy (OED 2); the nature of Dickinson's riddle poems.
[9] subjects, resist:: subjects that Dickinson resisted, like her view on God.
[10] Redoubtable:: to be feared or dreaded; to be reverenced or revered (OED 1); the church or literary world in her times.
[11, 12] Where, anywhere:: anything can be her poem's subject.
[13] Creation:: the beginning of a new world. after this?:: will her riddle poems open a new world?
