Emily Dickinson Mood
Emily Dickinson’s The sky is low-the Clouds are mean is a poem written about the way people in our everyday life can be cruel and mean. This poem from the beginning presents a very sad tone that is presented throughout. By going through the poem line by line you can see how the cruelty of someone’s words and the choices we make can portray to the outcome of our day. The poem suggests that nature is mad and reaking her havoc onto the Earth. The speaker says, “The Sky is low, the Clouds are mean” (1). This imagery is used to show that there is a storm approaching the area. By saying that the clouds are mean the speaker is showing that the clouds have no mercy on the ground below it or anything in there path. The clouds are going to unleash
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This choice will ultimately determine how people might perceive us and the outcome of our day. Dickenson writes, “A Travelling Flake of Snow/ Across a Barn or through a Rut/ Debates if it will go” (2-4). The flake of snow has a choice to fly across the bar or through the rut. By giving this option the snow flake now has to choose which path it will take. The speaker says, debates if it will go to show that we are hesitant in our decisions and need to weigh both options before we decide what to do. By going through a rut opposed to across a barn is that the rut may not be as hard of a terrain to cross but by doing this you may have to drag yourself through the mud. Just like your name may be drug through the mud throughout situations in your life. Going across the barn would be the harder terrain but you would stay above the mud instead of being in it. “A Narrow Wind complains all Day/ How some one treated him (5-6). These lines represent how a person will complain about the conditions that one is treating them. For example, a co-worker may mess up and get in trouble to the boss and for the rest of the day they will complain and sulk about what the boss said to them or how he treated them. Even knowing that they messed up and that they were going to get in trouble they still complain the whole
This choice will ultimately determine how people might perceive us and the outcome of our day. Dickenson writes, “A Travelling Flake of Snow/ Across a Barn or through a Rut/ Debates if it will go” (2-4). The flake of snow has a choice to fly across the bar or through the rut. By giving this option the snow flake now has to choose which path it will take. The speaker says, debates if it will go to show that we are hesitant in our decisions and need to weigh both options before we decide what to do. By going through a rut opposed to across a barn is that the rut may not be as hard of a terrain to cross but by doing this you may have to drag yourself through the mud. Just like your name may be drug through the mud throughout situations in your life. Going across the barn would be the harder terrain but you would stay above the mud instead of being in it. “A Narrow Wind complains all Day/ How some one treated him (5-6). These lines represent how a person will complain about the conditions that one is treating them. For example, a co-worker may mess up and get in trouble to the boss and for the rest of the day they will complain and sulk about what the boss said to them or how he treated them. Even knowing that they messed up and that they were going to get in trouble they still complain the whole