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MY WHEEL IS IN THE DARK by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Flinging the problem back, at you and I
Subject(s): TRAVEL;
My Wheel is in the dark.
I cannot see a spoke -
Yet know it's dripping feet
Go round and round.

My foot is on the tide -
An unfrequented road
Yet have all roads
A "Clearing" at the end.

Some have resigned the Loom -
Some - in the busy tomb
Find quaint employ.
Some with new - stately feet
Pass royal thro' the gate
Flinging the problem back, at you & I


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