Twas Crisis All the Length Had Passed
Twas Crisis All the Length Had Passed - meaning Summary
Moment Between Life and Death
The poem depicts a pivotal medical or existential crisis in which a person teeters between life and death. Dickinson compresses the moment into a tense interval: bodily resistance and paralysis, the spirit’s struggle against an unresponsive body, and finally a decisive instant when one outcome begins and the soul slips away. It presents mortality as a simultaneous physical and metaphysical confrontation, emphasizing urgency and the thin boundary between worlds.
Read Complete Analyses‘Twas Crisis All the length had passed That dull benumbing time There is in Fever or Event And now the Chance had come The instant holding in its claw The privilege to live Or warrant to report the Soul The other side the Grave. The Muscles grappled as with leads That would not let the Will The Spirit shook the Adamant But could not make it feel. The Second poised debated shot Another had begun And simultaneously, a Soul Escaped the House unseen
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