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258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
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258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
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Poem Criticism
Yvor Winters: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Laurence Perrine: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Donald E. Thackrey: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Thomas H. Johnson: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Sharon Cameron: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Sharon Cameron: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light") (2)
Paula Bennett: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Jonathan Holden: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Joanne Feit Diehl: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Gary Lee Stonum: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Jane Donahue Eberwein: On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")
Poem Details
Original Publication Year:
1862
Poet:
Emily Dickinson
Poetic Form:
Quatrain
Other Poems by the Same Poet
#465 (591) ("I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——")
#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,")
#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-")
#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-")
#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-")
#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")
#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
#508 (353) ("I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-")
#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-")
#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
#1072 (194) ("Title divine-is mine!")
#1129 (1263) ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-")
#1705 (1691) ("Volcanoes be in Sicily")
1705 (Volcanoes be in Sicily)
1129 (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant——)
1072 (Title divine——is mine!)
657 (I dwell in Possibility——)
613 (They shut me up in Prose——)
601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)
520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)
508 (I'm ceded——I've stopped being Theirs)
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
465 (I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——)
Poems that Share Poetic Form
657 (I dwell in Possibility——)
613 (They shut me up in Prose——)
601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)
520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
Gathering Leaves
In a Disused Graveyard
Desert Places
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
The Armadillo
For the Union Dead
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The Need of Being Versed In Country Things
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
To a Dark Girl
The Boy Soprano
Medusa
The Crows
Women
A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Miracles
Where It Ends
Refugee Ship
Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge
The Truth The Dead Know
Esta Noche
Esta Noche
Black Tambourine
Chaplinesque
Episode of Hands
#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,")
#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-")
#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-")
#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-")
#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")
#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-")
#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
For Love
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time
The Haunted Oak
