Of All the Souls That Stand Create

Of All the Souls That Stand Create - meaning Summary

Election of a Single Soul

The speaker declares a singular choice among many souls, imagining a moment when sensory perception drops away and worldly deception ends. In that clearing, past and present separate and the transient "tragedy of flesh" is displaced, allowing figures and mists to resolve into a clearer essence. The poem asserts a private election of an inner atom or true self that stands apart from corporeal lists and communal clay.