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    This poem describes a certain type of light that occurs on winter afternoons that has an oppressive and heavy quality like cathedral music. This "slant of light" brings a heavenly but indescribable hurt without leaving a physical scar, only an internal difference in perception. This experience cannot be taught and is a form of despair sent through the air. When this light is present, even the landscape seems still and quiet, and when it leaves it creates a sense of distance like what one might feel looking at death.

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    This poem describes a certain type of light that occurs on winter afternoons that has an oppressive and heavy quality like cathedral music. This "slant of light" brings a heavenly but indescribable hurt without leaving a physical scar, only an internal difference in perception. This experience cannot be taught and is a form of despair sent through the air. When this light is present, even the landscape seems still and quiet, and when it leaves it creates a sense of distance like what one might feel looking at death.

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    This poem describes a certain type of light that occurs on winter afternoons that has an oppressive and heavy quality like cathedral music. This "slant of light" brings a heavenly but indescribable hurt without leaving a physical scar, only an internal difference in perception. This experience cannot be taught and is a form of despair sent through the air. When this light is present, even the landscape seems still and quiet, and when it leaves it creates a sense of distance like what one might feel looking at death.

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    Theres a certain Slant of light (258)

    Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886


    Theres 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

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