Great Regulars: Several sites (for example,

Poets.org) that feature this poem have misplaced the line "The Apple in the Cellar snug" after "Faint Deputies of Heat." By doing so, the meaning of the poem is changed, and instead of the "apple" being the only "one that played," the steed becomes the only on that played. That might seem to make more sense than saying that an "apple" was the only one that played.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Dickinson's Winter

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In the first stanza, the great guru implies that he will be seeing again people he has known before in prior incarnations; he has "sleeping memories/Of friends once more to be." This hint points to one of the tenets of the philosophy he will be teaching--reincarnation. He is already in transit as the poem begins, "sailing o'er the sea."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: January Poet-Paramahansa Yogananda

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In sonnet 41, the speaker addresses the poem again: sometimes when the poet/speaker is not practicing his art, his thoughts commit "pretty wrongs." He does not completely specify the wrongs, but the point is that even when he is "absent from [the poem's] heart," its loveliness of intent follows him.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 41

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