There's a Certain Slant of Light - Emily Dickinson

[rachiboo14]

True true she was very sensitive, but perhaps a little recognition would have lifted her spirits a little..but w'ell never know..

[chris92124]

Too fqst

[m20p6]

@chris92124 I agree it was a bit too fast.

[rachiboo14]

Emily Dickinson's poems were so brilliant, it upsets me that no one wanted to publish them

[m20p6]

@rachiboo14 I wonder if she wouldn't have just shunned the attention. Wasn't her sensibility just too morbid for the period?

[kralbertson]

@rachiboo14 She actually didn't want them published. She gave all of them to her cousin, ordering them to be burned at her death, but it was impossible to destroy such lovely work.

[UberTubeGoon]

Seven out of ten for the reading (what is audible). One out of ten for sound recording. Try being closer to the mic.

[TheOnehappyrobot]

HOLY DUCK FUCK!

[mareeteo]

Some things are better read and not heard.

[schwebebahnable]

Problem here: the poem itself isn't audible, and what I can hear sounds like a speaker at an accountant's conference two doors down. WOuld it kill you to put some more feeling into the words?

[m20p6]

@schwebebahnable Dear me. We have a critic here who needs some help with her volume control. Thank you for taking some of your precious time to listen. So sorry you had to move on. Hugs and kisses darling.

[lucasagrant]

@m20p6 the critic has a point,

[paproski59]

Haven't we all seen this, felt it and lived it. Why should this be remarkable, for even the Greeks knew it, it is tradegy. Emily seems convinced that she alone possess this....she proved it though.

[aCertainSlant]

Well read.

[ViolentVegiterians]

emily dickinson is my favorite poet.. thank you for puting this on here

[hors3crazy]

I am obsessed with the book ! :)

[studedemo]

you guys , or girls should read the book a certain slant of light, it's wonderful

[SadieBeCool]

it is a very good book. I agree.

[loclynn]

nice read

[parakeethands]

great music of Bach set to the poem

[JosueM7]

what would be the Image and the Meaning of this poem?

[JEUBEDA]

well maybe she was just playing on the word 'slant', since she uses slant rhyming throughout that piece

[Lempel732]

I'm gonna have a presentation about this poem, but I'm slightly confused about the interpretation. Can it also be interpretated that dark, bad times, there's always a slant of hope, a solution?

[m20p6]

I do not think that it has to do with a happy ending or solution. It is about the dispair of a depressive mood. No matter that there is the light of hope, it is slanted and it fades. It seems that the light of hope on accentuates the darkness of ones mood.

[poormona]

What does it mean?

[m20p6]

perhaps that our perceptions are the spice of life and death unto themselves.

[poormona]

I'm sorry, but it's statements like that that make people hate poetry.

[Abbinormal09]

And those same statements that make others love it...

[magalator]

this poem is just describing the feeling of sadness that comes and goes like a slant of sunlight in the winter.

[ePhilosopher]

once in the air, astral traveller

[ePhilosopher]

happy solstice , girl

[MainStreetMonochrome]

Thx sooo much. Dickinson speaks to the ineffable solitude that inheres our existance, and makes art of it. That's why I always come back to it.Good visuals too.

[j0eX]

well done. is that dante at the end?