Discovery Route – 1

Some topics of conversation were non-existent in Victorian circles. But even when it still is a mystery what exactly Dickinson keeps under wraps, your eyes are opened now for the hints she is communicating. Regardless whether you interprete her message as a request to bar Death’s pen for the tired flocks, or as a welcome ode to metaphorical death. And the first line perhaps even fits in as a figure of speech :

– Let down the Bars, Oh Death      :  Shake off the restraints, Oh Death

– Let down the Bars, Oh Death      :  Shut the gate, Oh Death

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– Let down the Bars, Oh Death      :  …………………………………………………………………………….

– The tired flocks come in               :  …………………………………………………………………………….

– Whose … repeat                             :  …………………………………………………………………………….

– Whose wandering is done            :  ……………………………………………………………………………

– Thine is the stillest night             :  …………………………………………………………………………….

– Thine the securest Fold                :  …………………………………………………………………………….

– Too near … seeking Thee             :  …………………………………………………………………………….

– Too tender, to be told                   :  …………………………………………………………………………….

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