"Praise it 'tis dead " By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Praise it 'tis dead [1] It cannot glow [2] Warm this inclement Ear[3] With the encomium it earned[4] Since it was gathered here [5] Invest this alabaster Zest[6] In the Delights of Dust [7] Remitted since it flitted it[8] In recusance august.[9]
Poem 1384 [F1406] "Praise it tis dead" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

Emily seems to be speaking to fellow mourners gathered around a newly filled grave. Now that the loved one is a corpse, it can only be praised and given to warm it the 'encomium' it has deserved since it became a corpse. All the mourners can do now is to clothe this 'alabaster [which was once] Zest' by remembering the Delights which it experienced and provided when it was human clay and which it has now given up ever since it 'flitted' this human clay 'in recusance august' for eternity.
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