Wild nights - Wild nights! BY EMILY DICKINSON

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Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretations of words, or to evoke emotive responses. 

What are spiritual poems?

Spiritual poems emerge in response to the central questions of human life—mortality and transience, isolation and alienation, the question of suffering in all its dimensions. In Horace, as in Issa, a solution is found in returning the heart and mind to the present moment.

HORACE’S ZEN

Ode I. 11

Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,
Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answers
In tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.
This could be our last winter, it could be many
More, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:
Do what you must, be wise, cut your vines
And forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take the present, the future’s no one’s affair.

Horace (Roman, 65-8 BCE)

Luke 1:36 And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.