I felt a cleaving in my mind

Dickinson, Emily

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poem

Annotated by:
Chen, Irene
Aull, Felice
  • Date of entry: May-07-2001
  • Last revised: Aug-29-2006

Summary

The narrator describes the disorientation felt as she attempted unsuccessfully to organize her thoughts. The "sequence [of thoughts] ravelled out of reach / Like balls upon a floor."

Miscellaneous

First published: 1896.

Primary Source

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Publisher

Little, Brown

Place Published

Boston

Editor

Thomas H. Johnson