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1、 Emily DickinsonTheres a certain slant of light258Emily DickinsonTheres a certain slant of lightThat oppresses, like the heftOf Cathedral Tunes-Winter Afternoons-Heavenly Hurt, it gives us-We can find no scarBut internal difference, Where the Meanings, are-None may teach it- Any-Tis the Seal Despair

2、An imperial afflictionSent us to the airWhen it comes, the Landscape listens-Shadows- hold their breath-When it goes, tis like the DistanceOn the look of Death-Theres a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.Heavenly hurt it gives us;We can find

3、 no scar,But internal differenceWhere the meanings are.Theres a certain Slant of lightBy Emily Dickinson To make sb. only able to think about sad or worry things Heavenly suggests the immateriality of the hurt, the ultimate source of both sunlight and deathGod Theres a certain Slant of light Light,

4、itself a characteristic mystical symbol of the Divine, and perhaps also the natural splendor of the world which the light reveals and enhances in its afternoon, fading glow, strikes Emily Dickinson with the irresistible force of an Eternal Power. Theres a certain Slant of lightThe slant of light, it

5、s illumination epitomizing the glorious sublimity of nature, would symbolize for Emily Dickinson the ultimate realization of truth and beauty. Theres a certain Slant of lightThe immensity of lights compass, the intangibility of its substance, the mystery of its origin, the all-pervasive immediacy of

6、 its presence would create in her the sudden awareness of her own relationship to the natural world and yet of the inevitable change of this relationship at death. The awareness that she must cease to see the light gives her present vision its searing acuteness.None may teach it anything,Tis the sea

7、l, despair,-An imperial afflictionSent us of the air.When it comes, the landscape listens,Shadows hold their breath;When it goes, t is like the distanceOn the look of death.connected with an empire(帝王的)No other education is comparable; only the experiencing of despair sets the enduring seal upon the

8、 soul. distance suggests the awful distance between the living and the deadpart of the implicit content of the mood. 有一束斜照的阳光在冬日午后这压抑，就像教堂里钟乐的沉重冥冥中刺伤了我们不见伤疤却在内心的最深处发生了改变毫无征兆尘封，绝望一种强霸的折磨将我们化为乌有它来到，风景聆听阴影屏息它离去，恍如注视死亡。Theres a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightO

9、f cathedral tunes.Heavenly hurt it gives us;We can find no scar,But internal differenceWhere the meanings are.None may teach it anything,Tis the seal, despair,-An imperial afflictionSent us of the air.When it comes, the landscape listens,Shadows hold their breath;When it goes, t is like the distance

10、On the look of death.The grammer and skills used in this poem:1.This is a lyric poem2.The rhyme of the poem is abab cdcd efef ghgh 3.symbol： a certain slant of light means deathTheres a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.Heavenly hurt it giv

11、es us;We can find no scar,But internal differenceWhere the meanings are.None may teach it anything,Tis the seal, despair,-An imperial afflictionSent us of the air.When it comes, the landscape listens,Shadows hold their breath;When it goes, t is like the distanceOn the look of death.FeelingsThe chief characteristic of this feeling is its painful oppressiveness. There is something that comes in us that is similar to the heavy burden we feel in our hearts when we hear funeral music .Elements of Poetry Simile-oppresses like the He