Carrol, Yoshie Help!

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at sun.com
Fri Jan 31 15:22:00 PST 2003


...and anyone else who can parse poetry...I'm having trouble: Do "jails" refer to schools or the womb? I'm having trouble with lines 3&4; Is "foe" in the last line a reference to "mob of solid bliss"?

Thanks/Joanna

FROM all the jails the boys and girls

Ecstatically leap,

Beloved, only afternoon

That prison doesn't keep.

They storm the earth and stun the air,

5

A mob of solid bliss.

Alas! that frowns could lie in wait

For such a foe as this!

Emily Dickenson



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