Above Oblivion’s Tide there is a Pier
"Above Oblivion's Tide there is a Pier" is a compact poem that imagines a lone refuge rising over the waters of forgetting. Only an unnamed "Few" reach it, and the speaker insists they are not carried there but lift themselves. Fame, personified as armless and offering a single meagre smile, cannot help them. In just a few lines, Dickinson sets the lasting against the fleeting, and asks who truly earns remembrance.
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