Emily Dickinson's poem "I Like to see it lap the Miles-"
Emily Dickinson's poem "I Like to see it lap the Miles-"
ostensibly is a poem depicting two modes of transportation; a
train as characterized by a horse. While this is conclusive
Dickinson also appears to be using the poem to state another mode
of transportation: poetry.
Feelings about poetry are expressed in line three, "And stop
to feed itself at Tanks-", poetry feeds the mind, which feeds the
world. In other words poetry becomes self-generating …
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…by a horse, she gives us a poem about
poetry. She shows us that although poetry may not necessarily
possess a conventional form, it will emerge a subject, pare its
shape, give us music in the form of a "-Hooting stanza-" and
return us back from whence we came, "At its own stable door-". As
"Let your fingers do the walking" relates to the yellow pages;
let your mind do the thinking relates to poetry.
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