Here, if she’s rejecting the idea the Word Created, she’s doing it for the sake of introducing a counterfactual, a “what if” question: What would immortality on Earth be like, truly? It can’t just be us being the same human form but living longer, because these bodies and 99% of what we do are geared towards mortality. It also can’t just be “being remembered,” because that gives “us” no activity. We — even not present on this Earth — need to be “active” in a sense. That activity I think is being described in the poem: the conditions for thought are what an immortal presents.

To get to the “what if,” though, “Paradise” needs to be redefined as something Earthly. The idea that there’s a life beyond has to be conceived in entirely human terms.

Unless of Course the divine created the natural..

I am aware, re: this post, that “she” is an unclear antecedent in the second sentence of my commentary, and that “Poetry” in the 4th paragraph seems to come out of nowhere. I’m leaving both things be for now, I may edit more later.