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Emily Dickinson There’s a certain slant of light 258 Emily Dickinson There’s a certain slant of light That oppresses, like the heft Of Cathedral Tunes- Winter Afternoons- Heavenly Hurt, it gives us- We can find no scar But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are- None may teach it- Any- Tis the Seal Despair An imperial affliction Sent us to the air When it comes, the Landscape listens- Shadows- hold their breath- When it goes, ‘tis like the Distance On the look of Death- Theres a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.Heavenly hurt it gives us;We can find no scar,But internal differenceWhere the meanings are. Theres a certain Slant of light By Emily Dickinson To make sb. only able to think about sad or worry things Heavenly suggests the immateriality of the hurt, the ultimate source of both sunlight and death—God Theres a certain Slant of light Light, itself a characteristic mystical symbol of the Divine, and perhaps also the natural splendor of the world which the light reveals and enhances in its afternoon, fading glow, strikes Emily Dickinson with the irresistible force of an Eternal Power. Theres a certain Slant of light The slant of light, its illumination epitomizing the glorious sublimity of nature, would symbolize for Emily Dickinson the ultimate realization of truth and beauty. Theres a certain Slant of light The immensity of lights compass, the intangibility of its substance, the mystery of its origin, the all-pervasive immediacy of its presence would create in her the sudden awareness of her own relationship to the natural world and yet of the inevitable change of this relationship at death. The awareness that she must cease to see the light gives her present vision its searing acuteness. None may teach it anything,Tis the seal, despair,-An imperial afflictionSent us of the air.When it comes, the landscape listens,Shadows hold their breath;When it goes, t