The Soul’s Superior Instants
poem 306
The Soul’s Superior Instants - meaning Summary
Private Glimpses of Eternity
The poem describes rare, private moments when the soul withdraws from worldly ties and experiences a solitary, elevated awareness beyond ordinary recognition. Dickinson contrasts these intense instants with ordinary mortality, likening the body’s disappearance to a delicate apparition under overpowering forces. Such episodes grant a select few a sudden, partial disclosure of eternity, revealing the vast, underlying reality of immortality that normally remains hidden from everyday life.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Soul’s Superior instants Occur to Her alone When friend and Earth’s occasion Have infinite withdrawn Or She Herself ascended To too remote a Height For lower Recognition Than Her Omnipotent This Mortal Abolition Is seldom but as fair As Apparition subject To Autocratic Air Eternity’s disclosure To favorites a few Of the Colossal substance Of Immortality
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