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Poetry Summary Sheet Blank. What to Upload to SlideShare. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Dry: A Memoir Augusten Burroughs. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Empath Up! Kiara Hodgson. In this poem the speaker is looking back to a time in life when happiness and growth were at their peak, and accepting that, yes, they have gradually lessened over time.
And interestingly, note that the line Our Summer made her light escape implies a personal connection; this happiness and light is 'owned', and so becomes shared human experience.
Some of the language reflects the idea of slow, daily change: twilight, afternoon, dusk, morning - the diurnal cycle - but that this is essentially a difficult process to understand because it is imperceptible, barely noticeable. We as humans might notice the small daily changes in life, how busy we need to be, how much we have to fit in, but as we get older we puzzle over just how quickly time goes. Little wonder that the poet chose the word perfidy treachery , as if time was trying to undermine us.
This is why stanzas three and four are explanatory, they break time down into periods of the day, in readiness for the light escape. As Imperceptibly As Grief has that classical Dickinson form: short lines, compact stanzas and dashes here and there. It is known that she changed the form of this poem - some versions are a single 16 line stanza - but in her original handwritten manuscript there are four separate stanzas, like the one shown below.
And because Emily Dickinson didn't title her poems there are numbers given to each one, based on the two different publishers, R. Franklin and Thomas Johnson So if you see this poem in an anthology for example it should have two numbers, and , corresponding to the publisher's names.
It was written around and published posthumously in As Imperceptibly As Grief begins life in a reflective and downbeat mode but ends with a hopeful and philosophical message. How odd to have the opening two lines relating grief to summer, suggesting that summer has ended without us noticing, and that is a subtle and sad thing.
Summer here is a metaphor for happiness, light, growth. That word distilled suggests a long term process whereby essences are extracted - quietness in this case - from twilight, that time of day when the earth breathes out and the noise subsides.
Time is caught between light and dark; energy is lost and the transition to a more reflective mood starts. And Nature is here personified, a female, isolated, even lonely, in the company of the afternoon. This is the most unusual of the four stanzas. From the alliterative dusk drew of the first line, to the unusual grammar of the second - morning foreign shone - and on to the longest third line with the juxtaposed courteous, yet harrowing grace and the metaphorical guest who doesn't want to or cannot stay.
And what about that word grace? It's both civil and disturbing; it brings delight but also pain and distress. This is the conclusion And thus So, being human, we're all subject to the vagaries of time, we each have to endure the seasons. Summer is that time of growth and peak energy and when it starts to fade away it can be painful, dark and sometimes lonely, but this is all part of the natural cycle. Losing someone, losing one's vitality - these are inevitable.
Skip to content. February 6, paulgmoss English resource 5 comments. Emily Dickinson The poem presents a unique vision in the portrayal of the passing of time, comparing the ending of summer to the ending of grief. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following.
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