As Sleigh Bells seem in summer Or Bees, at Christmas show -- So fairy -- so fictitious The individuals do Repealed from observation -- A Party that we knew -- More distant in an instant Than Dawn in Timbuctoo.
Dickinson captures that odd, dislocating feeling when someone who was once part of your life abruptly vanishes from it. She reaches for the most impossible seasonal mismatches she can think of — sleigh bells ringing in summer, bees buzzing at Christmas — to show how thoroughly out of place and…
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