Absent Place -- an April Day --
Absent Place -- an April Day -- Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow --
Drift may block within it Deeper than without -- Daffodil delight but Him it duplicate --
Emily Dickinson
Absent Place -- an April Day -- Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow --
Drift may block within it Deeper than without -- Daffodil delight but Him it duplicate --
Emily Dickinson’s lines paint an April day in a place defined by what’s no longer there. Daffodils are blowing, yet the speaker feels a “Homesick curiosity” toward “the Souls that snow”—a phrase that makes the dead or the distant feel cold and quiet, like fallen snow.
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