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I did not like "The Lightning playeth-- all the while--" at all by Emily Dickinson. I thought that it was very confusing. It did not make much sense, the only thing that I could possibly think that she could be talking about would be electricity and power lines but I did not think that those were around back then. The only reason i thought of this was that she said, "With Insulators-- and a Glove--" and"upon the ropes above our Head, continual with the News." These words first made me think of electricity. I thought this was kind of different from her other poems because she does not mention anything in the first stanza that could imply that she was talking about electricity other than the first line.

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It is talking about communciating through the means of the telegraph. We know this by this line "The lighting playeth-all the while." Also this line, "Nor We so much as check our speech." The last stanza is very easy to interpet, upon the ropes-above our Head- which means the electricity wires, continual with the News- which is saying they were consistent with spreading news through the telegraph, Nor We so much as check our speech- means exactly what it says, they didn't take the time to check their speech, Nor stop to cross Ourselves, this confused me a little bit, but im pretty sure Dickinson is trying to say that we don't stop to take a look at ourselves and always think first before we speak, that obviously happens because you always see people getting punished in various forms for making rude comments and so on. 1205457937