The phrase “miles away” is fairly amongst all dialects of English, and has subsequently lost much of its grandeur and impact. A mile is a fairly long distance and stacking them one on top of another is a pretty large distance by most standards. However, saying “lands away” adds somewhat of a mysterious element. Land is not a set value, therefore it is only imaginable how far away Dickinson wants to take the reader. Traditionally, a “land” meant a country, county, jurisdiction, or property. This wiggle room of sorts allows the reader to fill in the blanks and that possibility of more is lost when confined to a certain measurement, like a “mile.” However, trading “frugal” for “cheap” it adds a sense of charm and humility. A thing, such as “the chariot that bears the human soul” aka the human body, being called cheap would be an insult, degrading, and almost angering. Humans have heard all their lives about how miraculous the body is, the eyes are works of billions of years of evolution, the spine allows all movement in the body, the thumbs and the brains make humans in many ways superior to animals. Consider then, a body being called “simple” or “plain.” These are both synonyms to frugal and neither are inflammatory. Though a frugal body does not necessarily live up to everyone’s expectations, as it doesn’t have wings or telekinesis yet, the body is by no means considered cheap. …show more content…
The reader quickly goes from word to word, stanza to stanza; if their inner monologue could speak, it would be with intonation comparable to Neil Hilborn, or even a horse, referred to as “coursers” in the poem. The reader goes through the piece with the quickness and fluidity of a fox or Niagara Falls or, as Dickinson described it, a horse daintily and meticulously picking up and setting down its feet while sidestepping during a show, called