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SETTING SAIL by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: EXULTATION IS THE GOING
Last Line: OF THE FIRST LEAGUE OUT FROM LAND?
Subject(s): LIFE; TIME;
EXULTATION is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, --
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!

Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?



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