"Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar[1] Unless thou know'st the Tune[2] Or every Bird will point at thee[3] Because a Bard too soon [4]
Poem 1389 [F1403] "Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

The literal meaning of this poem is clear, any symbolic meaning less obvious. Perhaps she is saying that unless we really understand Nature, we must be careful what deeper meanings we extract from it, otherwise Nature, in the persons of the Birds, will laugh at us.
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