A Train Went Through A Burial Gate by Emily Dickinson
A Train Went Through A Burial Gate by Emily Dickinson

A Train Went Through A Burial Gate

Emily Dickinson * Track #81 On Poems 1890

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A Train Went Through A Burial Gate by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
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In this simple poem, Dickinson has a bit of fun at the expense of a bird. She sets the scene simply: a funeral train entered the church cemetery and then the bird sings its little head off.
She makes the bird a figure of fun—very mildly, though, as if it were a beloved aunty or old Parson. The bird...

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A Train Went Through A Burial Gate Annotated

A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the churchyard rang;

And then adjusted his little notes,
And bowed and sang again.
Doubtless, he thought it meet of him
To say good-by to men.

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A Train Went Through A Burial Gate was written by Emily Dickinson.

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