Emily Dickinson

Size Circumscribes It Has No Room

poem 641

Size Circumscribes It Has No Room - meaning Summary

Grandeur Repels Smallness

The poem considers how vastness or moral/spiritual greatness inherently rejects trivial intrusions and petty criticism. Using the image of a Giant and a Gnat, it suggests that true magnitude is unconcerned with small annoyances or slanders; such offenses cannot meaningfully affect what is fundamentally large. The tone is compact and aphoristic, arguing that intrinsic size renders calumny and minor foes irrelevant rather than threatening.

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Size circumscribes it has no room For petty furniture The Giant tolerates no Gnat For Ease of Gianture Repudiates it, all the more Because intrinsic size Ignores the possibility Of Calumnies or Flies.

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