Emily Dickinson

Two Were Immortal Twice

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Two Were Immortal Twice - meaning Summary

Eternity Experienced in Life

The poem reflects on a rare condition in which two people achieve a kind of doubled immortality: they attain eternity while living and again beyond life. This attainment is framed as a reversed divinity that only a few possess. Dickinson then notes that ordinary human perception constructs the idea of paradise by comparison, implying that our sense of the sublime depends on relative experience rather than absolute knowledge.

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Two were immortal twice The privilege of few Eternity obtained in Time Reversed Divinity That our ignoble Eyes The quality conceive Of Paradise superlative Through their Comparative.

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