How Firm Eternity Must Look
How Firm Eternity Must Look - meaning Summary
Steadfast Eternity and Human Fragility
The poem contrasts human fragility with the unchanging stability of Eternity. The speaker imagines Eternity as an "Adamant Estate," a fixed, coherent identity that grounds those whose sense of self is crumbling. Faces and personal identities seem disjointed or incoherent unless they are held within that eternal order. The tone is contemplative and consoling, proposing Eternity as a secure refuge for insecure, mortal selves.
Read Complete AnalysesHow firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity – How mighty to the insecure Thy Physiognomy To whom not any Face cohere – Unless concealed in thee
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