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How Happy Is The Little Stone

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HOW HAPPY IS THE LITTLE STONE

EMILY DICKINSON
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How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone
And doesn't care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity

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DISSECTION

  • Audience: people who worry or stress a lot
  • Secondary audience: people who rely on others and not themselves
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DISSECTION

  • Nature as lessons for humanity: relax
  • Happiness a simple life can bring
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DISSECTION

  • Comparison between life of stone and human
  • Speaker struggles to do what the stone does easily
  • Better to be small, overlooked object- no responsibilities of identity
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DISSECTION

  • "Fulfilling absolute decree in casual simplicity" = fulfill its purpose simply and without confusion
Photo by Gabriel 'Briel' Rocha
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PERSONIFICATION

  • "How happy is the little stone"
  • "And doesn't care about careers and exigencies never fears"
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SYMBOL

  • "Rambles on the Road alone"
  • "Little stone"
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SIMILE

  • "Independent as the Sun"
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IMAGERY

  • "Coat of elemental Brown"
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RHYME

  • Iambic tetra meter: 4 stressed-unstressed syllabic feet
  • Stone-alone; careers-fears; decree-simplicity; on-sun
  • Musical
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Photo by Davide Restivo

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