The Admirations and Contempts of Time
poem 906
The Admirations and Contempts of Time - meaning Summary
Death Reframes Earthly Judgment
Dickinson explores how death and the passage of time radically change perspective. An "Open Tomb" lets previously unseen truths become clear and causes past impressions to recede. The dying experience compresses finite life and infinite meaning into a single, altered vision that sees backward across time and forward toward the divine. The poem presents mortality as a moment that reorganizes judgment and reveals a broader, spiritual estimate of existence.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Admirations and Contempts of time Show justest through an Open Tomb The Dying as it were a Height Reorganizes Estimate And what We saw not We distinguish clear And mostly see not What We saw before ‘Tis Compound Vision Light enabling Light The Finite furnished With the Infinite Convex and Concave Witness Back toward Time And forward Toward the God of Him
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