No Other Can Reduce
poem 982
No Other Can Reduce - meaning Summary
Remembrance Defines Mortality
The poem argues that only memory can diminish human consequence by treating a life as if it were nothing after it is remembered. Contemplation turns present existence into an immediate nothingness, framing temporal worth as determined by perception. The speaker contrasts human measures of significance with a divine standard, suggesting that our sole rival in assessing worth is "Jehovah's Estimate," which ultimately judges consequence beyond human remembrance.
Read Complete AnalysesNo Other can reduce Our mortal Consequence Like the remembering it be nought A Period from hence But Contemplation for Contemporaneous Nought Our Single Competition Jehovah’s Estimate.
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