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Emily Dickinson Light

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I’ve enjoyed Emily Dickinson’s number 258 poem (“There’s a certain Slant of light”) because the poem main theme is a distinguished light that occurs only on winter afternoons. The speaker describes this light as being uncomfortable or anxious as the word he uses to describe it is “oppresses”. Then she goes on comparing this oppression to the heft of cathedral tunes, which in my opinion is contradictory. But knowing that Dickinson’s view of religion was somewhat controversial, she describes that this light that only happens during winter afternoons is as heavy on her as the sounds of a chapels songs. Then the poem goes on detailing how this light may affects the speaker, but it leaves no scar behind. Furthermore, as soon as the winter afternoon

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