"So from the mould" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

So from the mould[1] Scarlet and Gold[2] Many a Bulb will rise --[3] Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes.[4] So from Cocoon[5] Many a Worm[6] Leap so Highland gay,[7] Peasants like me,[8] Peasants like Thee[9] Gaze perplexedly![10]
Poem 66 [F110] "So from the mould" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

This poem seems to require the reader to supply a 'Just as' clause before the poem begins, so that Emily is saying, 'Just as we shall rise from this life into a heavenly life, so the flower rises from the bulb, and the butterfly leaps from the cocoon. These are all processes whose nature is hidden from the wise and which we peasants gaze at in perplexed wonder.' Judith Farr suggests that we could also supply before the poem begins the clause 'Just as the secret artist is discovered.' The butterfly from the cocoon appears again in poem 354 and the flower from the mould in poem 392.
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