Question: How can the poem “Wild Nights – Wild Nights” be regarded as a poem of mystic experience? Wild Nights Wild Nights Mysticism
Introduction
“Wild nights – wild nights!” is a poem by Emily Dickinson. In this short but powerful poem, the speaker is eager to share the “wild nights” with the missing lover.
Click here: for more notes of American Poetry
Love is an Enduring Entity
According to Dickinson, man can be immortal through love. This love is not sensational love. It is spiritual love and love for God, love for universality. The poet has claimed spiritual love in the poem “Wild Nights Wild Nights”. She declares that if she can spend a sweet night with her beloved, she can make a spiritual love with him. Here in this poem, beloved does not only mean conjugal life, but it may be love with friends or God. The poet has referred to Eden as heaven in the poem “Wild Nights Wild Nights”. Through loving God, man can conquer heaven and can be immortal.
Rowing in Eden-
Ah- the sea!
Might I but moor – tonight-
In thee!
In these lines, the poet means to say that staying with one’s beloved for a long time is like rowing in heaven. As the people love god at most by which they may persuade to immortality after their death.
Conclusion
The speaker of the poem wants to be close to God or another person. On this note, when the poem was first published in 1891, publishers feared that the romanticism of the poem might surprise the common man. But now this poem is one of the best examples of mysticism.
