A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's Poem by Emily Dickinson
A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's
A clock stopped -- not the mantel's
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still.
An awe came on the trinket!
The figures hunched with pain,
Then quivered out of decimals
Into degreeless noon.
It will not stir for doctors,
This pendulum of snow;
The shopman importunes it,
While cool, concernless No
Nods from the gilded pointers,
Nods from seconds slim,
Decades of arrogance between
The dial life and him.
......seems as if she is speaking of someone passing away...a clock stopped...a heart stopped...a clock goes tick tock....a heart goes thump thump...both continuously until one stops...
CONGRATS to the family of the late Emily Dickinson, this poem chosen as The Classic Poem of The Day. Hooray! Most deserving and sublimest! Thank you for sharing
FOUR: the ultimate lack of control over life's end. FIVE: The scientific language in the poem adds precision and objectivity to the concept of time, reflecting Dickinson's preoccupation with transience and mortality
THREE: Dickinson uses the metaphor of a broken Swiss-made clock to emphasize the fragility of human existence and
TWO: The poem suggests that death is an inevitable part of life, and time waits for no one.
ONE: This poem is about mortality and the fleeting nature of time..
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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I'm doing a project on Emily Dickinson for my 11th grade American Literature class, and i need to find a poem by Miss Emily Dickinson and then analyze it, i chose this poem, but i don't really understand it, so if anybody could please explain it to me and help me to better understand it, i would be extremely grateful.