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Question: Please paraphrase Emily Dickinson "A long, long sleep,!.!.!."!?
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A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one!.

Was ever idleness like this!?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon!?
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What do "dawn" and "noon" stand for!?
I get the part that "a hut of stone" might be the grave!.
Please paraphrase Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep (death - death is known by everyone)
That makes no show for dawn (unlike most sleeping you don't wake up at dawn from death)
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one!. (it's different (independant) from other kinds of sleep because you don't stretch or stir from death)

Was ever idleness like this!?
Within a hut of stone (is being idle like death)
To bask the centuries away (sleep for centuries)
Nor once look up for noon!? (and not realise it's late and you should stop being so lazy)Www@QuestionHome@Com

ok, well!.!.!.my personal interpretation is that
"that makes no show for dawn"
means the sleep won't end for dawn - if it's about death, that makes sense!. similar reasoning applies to "looking up for noon"Www@QuestionHome@Com

"that makes no show for dawn meaning morning!.

and noon means lunch time!.


Emily's basically trying to say the world is so calm/boring or something like that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com