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Position:Home>Poetry> Can you explain to me what the poem I have not told my garden yet by Emily DickoQuestion:I HAVE NOT TOLD MY GARDEN YET by: Emily Dickinson I HAVE not told my garden yet, Lest that should conquer me; I have not quite the strength now To break it to the bee. I will not name it in the street, For shops would stare, that I, So shy, so very ignorant, Should have the face to die. The hillsides must not know it, Where I have rambled so, Nor tell the loving forests The day that I shall go, Nor lisp it at the table, Nor heedless by the way Hint that within the riddle One will walk to-day! Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I HAVE NOT TOLD MY GARDEN YET by: Emily Dickinson I HAVE not told my garden yet, Lest that should conquer me; I have not quite the strength now To break it to the bee. I will not name it in the street, For shops would stare, that I, So shy, so very ignorant, Should have the face to die. The hillsides must not know it, Where I have rambled so, Nor tell the loving forests The day that I shall go, Nor lisp it at the table, Nor heedless by the way Hint that within the riddle One will walk to-day! the poem discusses how she doesn't want to share with the world how she will be dying...so she can't tell the garden nor the bee, the shops, the hillsides, the forests, etc. You know, she suffered from serious depression |