This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "Alone in the Storm," is about a storm, and it describes a storm that is so strong that it can't be contained. In this poem, the storm's power is so great that it's impossible for a storm to be contained, even by the strongest man on the face of the earth. In other words, if the storm were contained, it would be impossible for any man on earth to resist it. The storm that Longfellow is referring to is the storm that's about to occur in this chapter. It's the storm of Chaos, and the storm is about to happen in front of Longfellow. He's not going to let it happen, he says, and he's going to kill himself if he doesn't do something to stop it. He wants to make sure that the storm isn't going to happen to him, and that he can stop it from happening to anyone