Peace is a fiction of our Faith --
Peace is a fiction of our Faith -- The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never did alight.
Emily Dickinson
Peace is a fiction of our Faith -- The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never did alight.
Emily Dickinson opens with a blunt declaration: peace isn’t real, it’s something our faith makes up to comfort us. Then she gives us an image that feels like a half-remembered dream. On a winter night, bells ring out and seem to carry a neighbor beyond the reach of sound.
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