Tuesday, March 30, 2021

"A Light exists in Spring" by Emily Dickinson

 

A Light exists in Spring


A Light exists in Spring

Not present on the Year

At any other period --

When March is scarcely here

 

A Color stands abroad

On Solitary Fields

That Science cannot overtake

But Human Nature feels.

 

It waits upon the Lawn,

It shows the furthest Tree

Upon the furthest Slope you know

It almost speaks to you.

 

Then as Horizons step

Or Noons report away

Without the Formula of sound

It passes and we stay --

 

A quality of loss

Affecting our Content

As Trade had suddenly encroached

Upon a Sacrament.



Enjoy the poem with beautiful music.


Poem Video👇

https://youtu.be/Tg0y29kEbaw





Who wrote the poem "A Light exists in Spring"?


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 

(December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet who was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She spent most of her adult life at the family home in isolation, attending to her ill mother. Introverted and timid, she never married or sought a permanent romantic relationship all her life. Although she wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, her poetry was largely misunderstood or underrated while she was alive. Her poems were quite original and disregarded many conventional rules, containing short lines, typically lacking titles, and often using imperfect rhyme and odd-looking syntax. Her poetry however captures universal feelings in a simple sentence with unique but resonating metaphors and reflects the poet’s lively, imaginative, and dynamic inner world. Her poetic genius began to be appreciated only after her death when her sister published her works. Now Dickinson is regarded as one of the most important American poets.



"A Light Exists in Spring" explanation

In the poem, the speaker describes a particular light that can only be seen in early Spring in a calm and serene manner. This seemingly beautiful yet simple nature poem, however, has a deeper philosophical and religious connotation about the cycle of light and dark, day and night, life and death, etc.


No comments:

Post a Comment