{"id":32793,"date":"2016-07-19T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32793"},"modified":"2016-07-18T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T11:04:39","slug":"tuesday-poetry-theres-a-certain-slant-of-light-258-by-emily-dickinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/tuesday-poetry-theres-a-certain-slant-of-light-258-by-emily-dickinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poetry: &#8220;There\u2019s a certain Slant of light&#8221; (258) by Emily Dickinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica; font-size: small;\">There\u2019s a certain Slant of light,<br \/>\nWinter Afternoons \u2014<br \/>\nThat oppresses, like the Heft<br \/>\nOf Cathedral Tunes \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Hurt, it gives us \u2014<br \/>\nWe can find no scar,<br \/>\nBut internal difference,<br \/>\nWhere the Meanings, are \u2014<\/p>\n<p>None may teach it \u2014 Any \u2014<br \/>\n\u2019Tis the Seal Despair \u2014<br \/>\nAn imperial affliction<br \/>\nSent us of the Air \u2014<\/p>\n<p>When it comes, the Landscape listens \u2014<br \/>\nShadows \u2014 hold their breath \u2014<br \/>\nWhen it goes, \u2019tis like the Distance<br \/>\nOn the look of Death \u2014<\/p>\n<p>by Emily Dickinson, 1830 &#8211; 1886<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>For today, I thought I&#8217;d depart from my recent focus on haiku &#8212; but stick with seasonal poetry. Like last week&#8217;s haiku, this poem by Emily Dickinson addresses the subject of winter.<\/p>\n<p>I like the poem&#8217;s austerity and the way it alludes to the season rather than describing it directly: &#8220;telling it slant&#8221; indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are currently experiencing high summer or the deep midwinter, I hope you will enjoy the poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons \u2014 That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes \u2014 Heavenly Hurt, it gives us \u2014 We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are \u2014 None may teach it \u2014 Any \u2014 \u2019Tis the Seal Despair \u2014 An imperial affliction Sent us of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32796,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions\/32796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}