TIME AND ETERNITY IN EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMS 906 and 624.
Once we endeavor to examine the concept of time we have to do it close enough to the concept of eternity. When speaking of eternity Dickinson often uses the circumference – the circle image.
Time flees so vast that were it not
For an Eternity-
I fear me this circumference
Engross my finity (poem 802)
The relationship between time and eternity, between the limited, measurable extent of time and the totality of the infinite time in Heaven is unavoidable. In poem 906 Dickinson reviews time from eternity and , thus, draws a line between the finite and the infinite duration, accordingly, enlightenment: the acquisition of spiritual light and of coherence is realized only in eternity.
Nonetheless, “Forever- is composed of Nows “ and in poem 624 eternity can be felt now: there is , still, a hope to conceive unity......
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