"Remembrance has a Rear and Front -- / 'Tis something like a House / It has a Garret also / For Refuse and the Mouse.."
— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Author
Work Title
Date
w. c. 1871, 1896
Metaphor
"Remembrance has a Rear and Front -- / 'Tis something like a House / It has a Garret also / For Refuse and the Mouse.."
Metaphor in Context
Remembrance has a Rear and Front --
'Tis something like a House --
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and the Mouse.
Besides the deepest Cellar
That ever Mason laid
Look to it by its Fathoms
Ourselves be not pursued --
'Tis something like a House --
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and the Mouse.
Besides the deepest Cellar
That ever Mason laid
Look to it by its Fathoms
Ourselves be not pursued --
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Provenance
Reading Diana Fuss, The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them (New York: Routledge, 2004), 5-6.
Citation
Text from Thomas Johnson's The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Back Bay Books, 1976), 524-5.
Date of Entry
02/12/2012
