The Mountain Sat Upon the Plain
poem 975
The Mountain Sat Upon the Plain - meaning Summary
Authority of Nature Personified
The short poem personifies a mountain as a commanding, paternal presence seated above the plain. It watches broadly and judges like a slow, timeless observer while the seasons play around it like children. Dickinson casts the mountain as an ancestor figure—rooted, enduring, and foundational to cycles of day and year—suggesting a stable, generational source for recurring natural rhythms such as dawn and seasonal change.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Mountain sat upon the Plain In his tremendous Chair His observation omnifold, His inquest, everywhere The Seasons played around his knees Like Children round a sire Grandfather of the Days is He Of Dawn, the Ancestor
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