... represent skin colors. Dickinson compares "chrysalis", "blonde", and "umber" to show that even something that is perceived as indelible, such as race, can easily be removed by the universal and leveling power of Death. The poet also says that beneath the fabricated "chrysalis" of color, the "equal butterfly" of the humans being's spirit is what remains after death. This metaphor relates ... ...

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