"Experience is the Angled Road / Preferred against the Mind / By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself -- / Presuming it to lead."
— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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Date
w. c. 1864, published 1929
Metaphor
"Experience is the Angled Road / Preferred against the Mind / By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself -- / Presuming it to lead."
Metaphor in Context
Experience is the Angled Road
Preferred against the Mind
By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself --
Presuming it to lead
Quite Opposite -- How Complicate
The Discipline of Man --
Compelling Him to Choose Himself
His Preappointed Pain --
Preferred against the Mind
By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself --
Presuming it to lead
Quite Opposite -- How Complicate
The Discipline of Man --
Compelling Him to Choose Himself
His Preappointed Pain --
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Reading
Citation
First published in Further Poems of Emily Dickinson: Withheld from Publication by Her Sister Lavinia (Little, Brown, and Company, 1929).
Text from Thomas Johnson's Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems (Boston and New York: Back Bay Books, 1961), 219.
Text from Thomas Johnson's Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems (Boston and New York: Back Bay Books, 1961), 219.
Date of Entry
07/06/2015
