A poem about this character says of him, "easy as the narrow snake he forked his way along," and concludes, "Than sea and continent there is a larger: it is woe." He is compared favorably with a character who "supplants the balm" from a "consummate cluster" in another poem. The speaker observes, "Now, when I read, I read not," in a poem claiming this character "sets a thing significant." The speaker recalls, "He knew no haste and I had put away m
A poem about this character says of him, "easy as the narrow snake he forked his way along," and concludes, "Than sea and continent there is a larger: it is woe." He is compared favorably with a character who "supplants the balm" from a "consummate cluster" in another poem. The speaker observes, "Now, when I read, I read not," in a poem claiming this character "sets a thing significant." The speaker recalls, "He knew no haste and I had put away my labor and my leisure too" in another poem about him, in which "we passed the school, where children strove at recess in the ring." That poem about this character concludes with the image of horses' heads pointed toward eternity as they pull a carriage. For 10 points, name this personification for whom Emily Dickinson "could not stop."