"Two Lengths has every Day --" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Two Lengths has every Day --[1] Its absolute extent[2] And Area superior[3] By Hope or Horror lent --[4] Eternity will be[5] Velocity or Pause[6] At Fundamental Signals[7] From Fundamental Laws.[8] To die is not to go --[9] On Doom's consummate Chart[10] No Territory new is staked --[11] Remain thou as thou art.[12]
Poem 1295 [F1354] "Two Lengths has every Day" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

A Day is both always twenty-fours in extent and seeming shorter or longer depending on our emotions. Whether Eternity is 'Velocity or Pause' depends on the fundamental organisation of the universe. To die is usually regarded as a going, but the dying person takes with him all he has made of himself up to that point, and there is no going to any 'Territory new' from that.
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