Emily Dickinson Poems?

Question

Safe in their alabaster chambers,

Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,

Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,

Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.

Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine

Babbles the bee in a stolid ear

Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence,

Ah, what sagacity perished here!

Grand go the years in the crescent above them;

Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row,

Diadems drop and Doges surrender,

Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.

I’m doing a project on poems and I need help with this poem. Do you guys know what the poem is about? What’s the meaning of the poem?

Thanks Guys ;D

Answer 1

Her poems were named by the first line of the poem. All you have to do is look up the first line and find academic sources that tell you what it means... Here I found one for you:

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/englis...