"Pink small and punctual " By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Pink small and punctual [1] Aromatic low [2] Covert in April [3] Candid in May [4] Dear to the Moss [5] Known to the Knoll [6] Next to the Robin [7] In every human Soul [8] Bold little Beauty [9] Bedecked with thee [10] Nature forswears [11] Antiquity [12]
Poem 1332 [F1357] "Pink small and punctual" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

This poem describes the mayflower or trailing arbutus (epigaea repens =the creeper over the ground), and one copy of this poem was signed 'Arbutus.' In line 4 'candid' means 'open,' and in line 7 'next to' means 'next in importance to.' In lines 11-12 Emily is saying that when Nature is adorned with the arbutus, she makes the world feel young again. In a later letter (L1037) to Mrs George Dickerman Emily asks, 'Are not both [the daphne and arbutus] as beautiful as Delight can make them?'
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