I Years Had Been From Home

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Emily Dickinson

1891

I Years Had Been From Home by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson

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Please note that there are alternative versions of this poem.

This is a poem about fear of returning home and finding people and surroundings changed, so that the speaker is alienated and disconnected from what was once familiar. This can be taken literally, but more significantly, as a metaphor f...

I Years Had Been From Home Annotated

I—Years—had been—from Home—
And now—before the Door—
I dared not open—lest a face
I never saw before

Stare vacant into mine—
And ask my Business there—
My Business—just a Life I left—
Was such—still dwelling there?

I fumbled at my nerve—
I scanned the Windows o'er—
The Silence—like an Ocean rolled—
And broke against my Ear—

I laughed a Wooden laugh—
That I—could fear a Door—
Who Danger—and the Dead—had faced—
But never shook—before—

I fitted to the Latch—my Hand—
With trembling Care—
Lest back the Awful Door should spring—
And leave me—in the Floor—

I moved my fingers off,
As cautiously as Glass—
And held my Ears—and like a Thief
Fled gasping from the House-

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