A Man (Poem by Emily Dickinson)

A Man

By Emily Dickinson

Fate slew him, but he did not drop;

    She felled — he did not fall — 

Impaled him on her fiercest stakes — 

    He neutralized them all.

She stung him, sapped his firm advance,

    But, when her worst was done,

And he, unmoved, regarded her,

    Acknowledged him a man.