This World Is Not Conclusion
poem 501
This World Is Not Conclusion - meaning Summary
Beyond the Visible World
Dickinson’s poem presents the idea that earthly life is not the final reality and that something beyond is perceptible yet elusive. She contrasts the persuasive but invisible presence with academic doubt, popular faith, and personal longing. Scholars puzzle, believers suffer and falter, and public religion offers grand gestures that fail to quiet an inner, persistent hunger for certainty. The poem registers doubt, desire, and the limits of evidence in confronting the unknown.
Read Complete AnalysesThis World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond Invisible, as Music But positive, as Sound It beckons, and it baffles Philosophy don’t know And through a Riddle, at the last Sagacity, must go To guess it, puzzles scholars To gain it, Men have borne Contempt of Generations And Crucifixion, shown Faith slips and laughs, and rallies Blushes, if any see Plucks at a twig of Evidence And asks a Vane, the way Much Gesture, from the Pulpit Strong Hallelujahs roll Narcotics cannot still the Tooth That nibbles at the soul
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