hopefulmulberry [none/use name] to Post Maine On Main • 4 years agoWhat is your favorite piece of poetry?message-squaremessage-square49 fedilinkarrow-up136file-text
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minus-squarekrothotkin [he/him]hexbear5·edit-24 years agoI really like Dickenson's poems. Short, but with a lot of auditory depth. Punctuation and emphasis do so much in so little space. There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – 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 of the Air – When it comes, the Landscape listens – Shadows – hold their breath – When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death – link
I really like Dickenson's poems. Short, but with a lot of auditory depth. Punctuation and emphasis do so much in so little space.
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
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 of the Air –
When it comes, the Landscape listens –
Shadows – hold their breath –
When it goes, 'tis like the Distance
On the look of Death –