Great Regulars: I imagine this puppet refers

to one of those brightly painted mechanical figures that emerge from a clock's inner recesses to mark the hour by performing a mime, before swinging back into the machine. If no skill can "put the puppet bowing," it has been denied the dignity of a final performance, frozen mid-action. Putting together the images of the stopped clock and the puppet dangling still, we begin to realize they both refer to someone who has died.

from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A Reading of 'A Clock Stopped,' By Emily Dickinson

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