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Analysing 'There's a certain Slant of light' by Emily Dickinson, an A grade exam style answer.

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  • August 24, 2017
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‘There’s​ ​a​ ​certain​ ​Slant​ ​of​ ​light’
Explore how Emily Dickinson presents pain/a sensory/inner experience in ‘After great pain, a formal
feeling​ ​comes​ ​-’​ ​and​ ​make​ ​connections​ ​with​ ​one​ ​or​ ​two​ ​other​ ​poems​ ​from​ ​your​ ​collection.
You should consider Dickinson’s use of poetic and stylistic techniques and significant literary or other
relevant​ ​contexts.

In ‘There’s a certain Slant of Light’ rapidly fading light in winter induces feelings of despair at the
meaningless inevitability of darkness and death. She expresses the inner experience engendered by
the​ ​ordinary​ ​moment​ ​of​ ​time​ ​of​ ​day​ ​and​ ​years.

Dickinson uses the sense as a means of communicating an inner spiritual experience. She begins by
observing a ‘Slant of light’ that has a direct correlation to her internal psychological state of mind. In
the simile ‘like the heft of Cathedral tunes’ creates the image of a weighty burden, a synaesthetic
attribution of weight to sound, with the the anglo saxon monosyllable and fricative he​f​t’. This is
emphasised by the lexical choice of ‘oppressed’. ‘Cathedrals’ has connotations of God which may be
related to her sceptical questioning of her devout puritan surroundings, and her image of God as an
oppressor through the verb ‘oppresses’. This suggests that she saw God and religion as an
unavoidable, hugely powerful force that she could not ignore - like the full ringing sound of a

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