A clock stopped—not the mantel’s
"A clock stopped—not the mantel's" is an Emily Dickinson poem that watches a life end through the image of a failing timepiece. A puppet-like figure freezes mid-bow, the numbers hunch in pain, and the pendulum turns to snow. Doctors and a pleading shopman can do nothing against a cool, unmoved "No." In four short stanzas, Dickinson sets the tiny ticking of the dial against the vast stillness of death.
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