Emily Dickinson

No Crowd That Has Occurred

poem 515

No Crowd That Has Occurred - meaning Summary

Individual Resurrection's Scale

The poem considers resurrection as both a universal event and an intensely individual experience. Dickinson imagines graves and atoms reanimating, vast multitudes rendered small compared with each person’s unique consciousness. The speaker feels awe and solemn numbness at the singular significance of being raised, questioning whether any duplicate or parallel can match the event’s meaning for both the universe and the self.

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No Crowd that has occurred Exhibit I suppose That General Attendance That Resurrection does Circumferen ce be full The long restricted Grave Assert her Vital Privilege The Dust connect and live On Atoms features place All Multitudes that were Efface in the Comparison As Suns dissolve a star Solemnity prevail Its Individual Doom Possess each separate Consciousness August Absorbed&mda sh;Numb What Duplicate exist What Parallel can be Of the Significance of This To Universe and Me?

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