A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's Poem by Emily Dickinson

A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's

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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.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Adam Sobh 10 April 2009

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.

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Oliver Hageman 04 September 2006

The clock which is not the mantel's is the human heart

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John Tiong Chunghoo 25 March 2006

old clock louder than neighbour's new

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* Sunprincess * 25 January 2014

......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...

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* Sunprincess * 29 April 2014

........a wonderful write....enjoyed...

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 July 2024

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

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 July 2024

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

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 July 2024

THREE: Dickinson uses the metaphor of a broken Swiss-made clock to emphasize the fragility of human existence and

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 July 2024

TWO: The poem suggests that death is an inevitable part of life, and time waits for no one.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 July 2024

ONE: This poem is about mortality and the fleeting nature of time..

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