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There's A Certain Slant of Light
作者Author  /  Emily  Dickinson  愛蜜麗•狄更森

Study Questions

 
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258. What comparison does the first stanza make. What is unusual or confusing about the 
comparison? What image (mental picture or impression) is foremost in your mind at the  
end of the first stanza? What words in the first stanza have a positive connotation? Which are 
neutral? Which have a negative connotation? What feeling registers most strongly at the end 
of the stanza? 

   In the second stanza, what is contradictory about the expression "Heavenly Hurt"? What is 
Dickinson trying to express through this apparent contradiction? What effect does this hurt 
have? How could a "Slant of light" hurt? 

   In the third stanza, what does "it" refer to? Compare the expression "imperial affliction" to 
the earlier expression "Heavenly hurt." 

   Fourth stanza. What is "it"? What is "the Distance/ On the look of Death"? What effect does 
Dickinson's placement of dashes (--) have on the meaning?

   
 
 
 
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