"There is a Zone whose even Years"

By Emily Dickinson
[Analysis]
There is a Zone whose even Years [1]
No Solstice interrupt -- [2]
Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon [3]
Whose perfect Seasons wait -- [4]
Whose Summer set in Summer, till [5]
The Centuries of June [6]
And Centuries of August cease [7]
And Consciousness -- is Noon. [8]
Poem 1056 [F1020]
"There is a Zone whose even Years"
Analysis by David Preest
[Poem]
This poem describes the timelessness of Heaven. It has no solstice, no coming or going of the months or seasons but is one 'perpetual
Noon.'
Emily used the same metaphor of Noon for Heaven in poems 112 ('centuries of Noon'), 287 ('Degreeless Noon') and 297 ('and the
Everlasting Clocks chime -- Noon!').
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