It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard by Emily Dickinson
It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard by Emily Dickinson

It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard

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It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard by Emily Dickinson

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This poem is something of a mystery. Though brief, eight lines in all, it packs in a significant but ultimately unexplained metaphor. The poet drops something that she calls “it”. Its physical presence is vivid — it falls on hard “Stones”, which she capitalizes. Yet these are at “bottom of my Mind”...

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It dropped so low -- in my Regard --
I heard it hit the Ground --
And go to pieces on the Stones
At bottom of my Mind --

Yet blamed the Fate that flung it -- less
Than I denounced Myself,
For entertaining Plated Wares
Upon My Silver Shelf --

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