The Missing All Prevented Me
poem 985
The Missing All Prevented Me - fact Summary
Published Posthumously in 1929
This short lyric insists that awareness of the "Missing All"—a vast absence—kept the speaker from agonizing over lesser losses. Even the disappearance of a world or the sun could not distract them from daily labor and curiosity. The poem compresses a steady, pragmatic stance toward loss into compact, plain images, emphasizing work and composure over speculative distraction.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Missing All prevented Me From missing minor Things. If nothing larger than a World’s Departure from a Hinge Or Sun’s extinction, be observed ‘Twas not so large that I Could lift my Forehead from my work For Curiosity.
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