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One need not be a chamber to be haunted by Emily Dickinson
One need not be a chamber to be haunted by Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted

Emily Dickinson * Track #152 On Second Series

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Emily Dickinson

1891

One need not be a chamber to be haunted by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
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This Dickinson poem explores the workings and confusion of the mind. Using Gothic references, the speaker urges the reader not to be afraid of external Gothic experiences. Far worse are the gruesome imaginings of a disturbed psyche. Gothic literature was popular in the nineteenth century, perhaps...

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted Annotated

One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted -
One need not be a House -
The Brain has Corridors - surpassing
Material Place

Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External ghost
Than its interior Confronting
That Cooler Host.

Far safer, through an Abbey gallop
The Stones a'chase-
Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter -
In lonesome Place -

Ourself behind ourself, concealed -
Should startle most -
Assassin hid in our apartment
Be Horror's least.

The Body - borrows a Revolver -
He bolts the Door -
O'erlooking a superior spectre -
Or More -

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