Summary There-s A Certain Slant Of Light

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spkr notices a certain slant of light
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=
appears on
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winter Afternoons
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While associated w/positive things of light
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light usually ,
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spur says this slant
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brings Heavenly Hurt
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this Winter light
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oppresses the spur
• The poem goes on to
explore the origins + effects of ↳
poem
~> if God breathed life into human beings ,




this mysterious , melancholy feeling then God also created sensation of despair ,


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A- feeling the poem on> is an unavoidable part of with that life comes death

being human

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Spur goes on to emphasize the deeply
personal + inescapable nature of this feeling

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feeling = first described as heavy ,
like

down on spkr's soul
a
weight pressing
• much like the heaviness person feel when

listening
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to Cathedral Tunes
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Overall , sense of hopelessness :
↳ to church
going might remind ppl of the •




nothing the spkr does can temper
fact The nature of Despair
that they're subject to forces this despair

beyond their control .

Even the landscape can do
nothing
Perhaps despair spur feels is connected to feeling
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,
a of except listen while Shadows -




/smallness hold their breath
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helplessness in relation to rest of universe



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Even when despair lifts it is
,



compared to the expression in a
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corpse's eyes
symbolic associations b / winter death
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spurs despair =
tied to an understanding of inevitability of death Just as death =
unavoidable
,
so is
any
> this awareness is what causes spkr to feel both pained +
trapped hope of
combating this despair