An Altered Look About The Hills Poem by Emily Dickinson

so beautiful. always a pleasure to read.

My daughter loved the movie 'Rockadoodle' when she was young. I cannot believe that the main character in this movie is also mentioned in this poem. What's more, the character, Chanticleer was originally written about in a work of Chaucer in the early 1400's. I believe that in this poem, Emily is saying that we must beware of that certain prideful part of our personality, no matter how beautiful or eye catching it may be; that we must guard it with subtle inocence and not with vanity, lest it be stripped from us in an instant.

My daughter loved the movie 'Rockadoodle'. I cannot wait to tell her that her favorite character from that movie is found in a Dickerson poem and what's more the character was originally depicted in a tale written by Chaucer in the 1400's. I think that in this poem Emily is saying that we must beware that the one prideful thing that we exhibit in our personality, no matter how beautiful or eyecatching it might be; might be the one thing that would cause our own self destruction; that we must guard it with care and not with vanity lest it be stripped from us in an instant.