Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 10:38pm.
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The person who chose the poem missed the point; Yes Dickerson was probably depressed, for good reason, but this poem is about truth and a search for knowledge rather than just a "depressing day."
The slant of light is truth, or in her own words "meaning." Winter afternoon are used not because they are merely depressing but because they represent tumultous times; Cathedral tunes connotate truth of a hidden godly or religious nature. The heavenly hurt is because the truth is hard to deal with, etc...
Thus this poem has nothing to do with depression, it is a lament on the indirect way truth presents itself.
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I have no comment on the content of this site beyond this:
The person who chose the poem missed the point; Yes Dickerson was probably depressed, for good reason, but this poem is about truth and a search for knowledge rather than just a "depressing day."
The slant of light is truth, or in her own words "meaning." Winter afternoon are used not because they are merely depressing but because they represent tumultous times; Cathedral tunes connotate truth of a hidden godly or religious nature. The heavenly hurt is because the truth is hard to deal with, etc...
Thus this poem has nothing to do with depression, it is a lament on the indirect way truth presents itself.