It is the holiday season, and everyone is thinking about holiday stuff. Very few are thinking about “Setting Sail ” right now. I am not sure Emily Dickinson was talking about just “sailing” either when she wrote this beautiful poem.
Setting Sail
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, –
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
What metaphors do you see in this poem?
Bonnie Saul Wilks 
just saw this so I’ll break the ice 🙂
well ill start with the obvious- exultation! The joy of the unknown immensity. The new.
But it is something fresh, something the sailor will probably have forgotten many years ago, something he may even take for granted.
As for other metaphors, this could also represent freedom, change, and death. I think I like the lens of death the best. But I, in my youth, have not seen much death, and have most likely a fantasy spectre of it in my head- for I have not lost someone too close to me that I love dearly.
Yet still, all I can imagine is the world peeling back to Reality and Him more present than all the world which currently clouds my vision.