help with poetry analysis. i don't understand this poem?

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the poem is by emily dickinson.

Heaven is what I cannot reach!
The apple on the tree,
Provided it do hopeless hang,
That "heaven" is, to me.

The color on the cruising cloud,
The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, --
There paradise is found!


what does this poem mean. line by line.
and does anyone know what the inspiration behind the poem was?
 
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