Э. Дикинсон. 319. The nearest Dream recedes

"Попытаться понять" и "понять" -
это не одно и то же.
Мечта не "КАК Рай" (где ты увидел здесь "как"?),
Мечта - о нём,
её Мечта и есть этот Рай,- The Heaven we chase.
И оригинал не разбит на катрены, всё заедино.
Когда соединишь, Алик, помусоль губами,
послушай как пчёлка и жужжит-вьётся, и перелетает резко,-
Dips – evades – teases – deploys –

Ruth Miller skilfully unpacks the complex structure of this poem.
‘Nearest’ in line 1 means ‘most important,’
and our most important dream is our perennially unsuccessful search
for the religious certainty that there is a heaven.
We chase this dream as unsuccessfully as a school boy
tries to catch a bee in June.
We will always be homesick for the ‘steadfast Honey’
which symbolises this religious certainty, but, alas,
such religious certainty does not exist.
There is no such Bee for us to catch.
George Whicher points out the contrast
between the metrical regularity of lines 1-4
and of lines 11-13 and the freer rhythms of lines 5-10
which describe the zig-zag flight of the bee.

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