Lyric Poem · Sad
Undue Significance a starving man attaches
Undue Significance a starving man attaches
To Food —
Far off — He sighs — and therefore — Hopeless —
And therefore — Good —
Partaken — it relieves — indeed —
But proves us
That Spices fly
In the Receipt — It was the Distance —
Was Savory —
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“Undue Significance a starving man attaches” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/undue-significance-a-starving-man-attaches
Quick facts
- Poem
- Undue Significance a starving man attaches
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 9 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Sad, Short
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- Shape
- 9 lines · 2 stanzas of 4–5 lines
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBUndue Significance a starving man attaches by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 7f8a7a02c5610966…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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