Unity
As eons of incalculable strife Are in the vision of one moment caught, So are the common, concrete things of life Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
As eons of incalculable strife Are in the vision of one moment caught, So are the common, concrete things of life Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought.
In just four lines, Robinson suggests that the whole history of struggle—eons of conflict too vast to count—can be caught in one flash of understanding. The speaker is describing a mental vision, not a literal one: a moment where time collapses and ancient strife feels suddenly present.
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