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The Power Of The Chariot By Thomas R. Arp And Greg Johnson

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I find lines 7-8 of “There is no Frigate like a Book” to be especially memorable. They read, “How frugal is the Chariot / That bears the Human Soul –” (7-8). The Chariot is a book; Emily Dickinson is saying that books carry the human soul through history and on far away adventures. These lines speak to me because of how much I love reading. I can relate to being swept away by a book. The entire work carries a message similar to the last two lines. “Sound and Sense” by Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson says this poem is about “the power of a book or of poetry to carry us away, to take us from our immediate surroundings into a world of the imagination” (pg 43). My interpretation is similar. However, I believe this poem is less about the power of

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