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23 Mei 2022 · By Emily Dickinson. The Bustle in a House. The Morning after Death. Is solemnest of industries. Enacted opon Earth –. The Sweeping up the Heart. And putting Love away. We shall not want to use again. Until Eternity –. Notes: The Poetry Foundation often receives questions about Emily Dickinson's poems.
The bustle in a house / The morning after death / Is solemnest of industries / Enacted upon earth / The sweeping up the heart / And putting love away / We shall not want to use
The American poet Emily Dickinson wrote "The Bustle in a House" sometime around 1866. The poem describes the hectic work that follows the death of a loved one (arranging the funeral, organizing the deceased's possessions, and so forth), hinting that all this activity might, in part, be a coping mechanism for grief.
Poem The Bustle In A House by Emily Dickinson : The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,– The s.
The Bustle in a House The Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted opon Earth – The Sweeping up the Heart And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity –
The Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon Earth --The Sweeping up the Heart And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity.
The poem is filled with similar contrasts. It is set on “the Morning after Death,” setting up a contrast between the night, with its associated darkness and surrender of consciousness, and the day that inevitably follows—and with it, life’s mundane but unstoppable flow. In the second stanza, Dickinson extends her central metaphor.
