30/10/2024, 12:22 OCR conflict Poetry Quotebank
OCR conflict Poetry Quotebank
- "like the heft of cathedral tunes-"
- "Heavenly hurt, it gives us"
Theres a certain slant quotes - "Seal Despair"
- "An imperial affliction"
- "the Landscape listens"
-
[theres a certain slant of light]
SIMILE, connotes the emotional weight religion
like the heft of cathedral tunes holds on a person, unmovable weight - dull and
depressing internal conflict occuring that
speaker feels she cant get rid of (implications
of 'heft')
[Theres a certain slant of light]
Capitalization of "Hurt", implies divine pain
"Heavenly Hurt, it gives us" (supported by heavenly), how deeply speaker
is affected by her conflicts, emotions are
otherworldly/godly
[Theres a certain slant of light]
Seal - implies idea of being forced into religion
"Seal Despair" or faith, links to branded with the label of
"despair"/being sealed into it by a divine force.
How diminishing Dickinsons' conflict with
religion and her emotions truly is
[There's a Certain Slant of Light]
affliction connotes ideas of a sickness or
"Imperial affliction" plague, imperial denotes themes of
empire/imperialism. Alludes to a regime, or
being cursed with a regime [of religion] forcing
itself upon a person
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, 30/10/2024, 12:22 OCR conflict Poetry Quotebank
[Theres a certain slant of light]
L alliteration, wistful/gentle image of
"the Landscape listens" anthropomorthisized enviroment,
simultaniously ominous as nature is simply a
bystander, not able to solve or react.
Emily Dickinson portrays conflict as an
emotional concept, with the idea that the
How does the poet present conflict in 'Theres a oppression of religion or a regime - in this case
Certain Slant of Light'? christianity can cause feelings of depression
and 'internal difference' to her personal
emotions [no scar].
- "Black veil of a faith that made me faithless"
- "gave my god a devils face"
- "silks" "lacy things" "that feed dictator
Honour killing quotes dreams"
- "the face, the flesh the womb."
- "easy cage of bone"
- "making, crafting plotting"
[honour killing]
Juxtaposition, her views silenced by her
"Black veil of a faith that made me faithless" religion - oppression of faith. Black connotes
ideas of death, and alludes to idea that religion
made her no longer want to live
[honour killing]
Metaphor, Forced religion disguised her
"Gave my god a devils face" hope/light [god] with hellish/satanic imagery
[devil]. False portrayal of what religion should
be to her - gave.
[honour killing] Animalistic imagery of the
primitive hunger of the corrupt men
"Silks" "lacy things" "Feed dictator dreams" surrounding her, "lacy" image of hyper
femininity and delicate - evoke ideas of the
controlling gaze of powerful men.
Thirteen quotes "You will"
"you'll laugh... you're thirteen"
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OCR conflict Poetry Quotebank
- "like the heft of cathedral tunes-"
- "Heavenly hurt, it gives us"
Theres a certain slant quotes - "Seal Despair"
- "An imperial affliction"
- "the Landscape listens"
-
[theres a certain slant of light]
SIMILE, connotes the emotional weight religion
like the heft of cathedral tunes holds on a person, unmovable weight - dull and
depressing internal conflict occuring that
speaker feels she cant get rid of (implications
of 'heft')
[Theres a certain slant of light]
Capitalization of "Hurt", implies divine pain
"Heavenly Hurt, it gives us" (supported by heavenly), how deeply speaker
is affected by her conflicts, emotions are
otherworldly/godly
[Theres a certain slant of light]
Seal - implies idea of being forced into religion
"Seal Despair" or faith, links to branded with the label of
"despair"/being sealed into it by a divine force.
How diminishing Dickinsons' conflict with
religion and her emotions truly is
[There's a Certain Slant of Light]
affliction connotes ideas of a sickness or
"Imperial affliction" plague, imperial denotes themes of
empire/imperialism. Alludes to a regime, or
being cursed with a regime [of religion] forcing
itself upon a person
https://knowt.com/flashcards/58a64dbe-8587-4824-be29-1eb0318af745 1/6
, 30/10/2024, 12:22 OCR conflict Poetry Quotebank
[Theres a certain slant of light]
L alliteration, wistful/gentle image of
"the Landscape listens" anthropomorthisized enviroment,
simultaniously ominous as nature is simply a
bystander, not able to solve or react.
Emily Dickinson portrays conflict as an
emotional concept, with the idea that the
How does the poet present conflict in 'Theres a oppression of religion or a regime - in this case
Certain Slant of Light'? christianity can cause feelings of depression
and 'internal difference' to her personal
emotions [no scar].
- "Black veil of a faith that made me faithless"
- "gave my god a devils face"
- "silks" "lacy things" "that feed dictator
Honour killing quotes dreams"
- "the face, the flesh the womb."
- "easy cage of bone"
- "making, crafting plotting"
[honour killing]
Juxtaposition, her views silenced by her
"Black veil of a faith that made me faithless" religion - oppression of faith. Black connotes
ideas of death, and alludes to idea that religion
made her no longer want to live
[honour killing]
Metaphor, Forced religion disguised her
"Gave my god a devils face" hope/light [god] with hellish/satanic imagery
[devil]. False portrayal of what religion should
be to her - gave.
[honour killing] Animalistic imagery of the
primitive hunger of the corrupt men
"Silks" "lacy things" "Feed dictator dreams" surrounding her, "lacy" image of hyper
femininity and delicate - evoke ideas of the
controlling gaze of powerful men.
Thirteen quotes "You will"
"you'll laugh... you're thirteen"
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