, ' '
•
spkr notices a certain slant of light
'
=
appears on
'
winter Afternoons
' '
While associated w/positive things of light
' '
•
light usually ,
•
spur says this slant
'
brings Heavenly Hurt
' ' '
this Winter light
' '
oppresses the spur
• The poem goes on to
explore the origins + effects of ↳
poem
~> if God breathed life into human beings ,
this mysterious , melancholy feeling then God also created sensation of despair ,
•
A- feeling the poem on> is an unavoidable part of with that life comes death
being human
•
Spur goes on to emphasize the deeply
personal + inescapable nature of this feeling
I
•
feeling = first described as heavy ,
like
down on spkr's soul
a
weight pressing
• much like the heaviness person feel when
listening
'
to Cathedral Tunes
'
Overall , sense of hopelessness :
↳ to church
going might remind ppl of the •
nothing the spkr does can temper
fact The nature of Despair
that they're subject to forces this despair
beyond their control .
Even the landscape can do
nothing
Perhaps despair spur feels is connected to feeling
' ' '
-
,
a of except listen while Shadows -
/smallness hold their breath
'
helplessness in relation to rest of universe
'
Even when despair lifts it is
,
compared to the expression in a
1
corpse's eyes
symbolic associations b / winter death
•
+
✓
'
spurs despair =
tied to an understanding of inevitability of death Just as death =
unavoidable
,
so is
any
> this awareness is what causes spkr to feel both pained +
trapped hope of
combating this despair
•
spkr notices a certain slant of light
'
=
appears on
'
winter Afternoons
' '
While associated w/positive things of light
' '
•
light usually ,
•
spur says this slant
'
brings Heavenly Hurt
' ' '
this Winter light
' '
oppresses the spur
• The poem goes on to
explore the origins + effects of ↳
poem
~> if God breathed life into human beings ,
this mysterious , melancholy feeling then God also created sensation of despair ,
•
A- feeling the poem on> is an unavoidable part of with that life comes death
being human
•
Spur goes on to emphasize the deeply
personal + inescapable nature of this feeling
I
•
feeling = first described as heavy ,
like
down on spkr's soul
a
weight pressing
• much like the heaviness person feel when
listening
'
to Cathedral Tunes
'
Overall , sense of hopelessness :
↳ to church
going might remind ppl of the •
nothing the spkr does can temper
fact The nature of Despair
that they're subject to forces this despair
beyond their control .
Even the landscape can do
nothing
Perhaps despair spur feels is connected to feeling
' ' '
-
,
a of except listen while Shadows -
/smallness hold their breath
'
helplessness in relation to rest of universe
'
Even when despair lifts it is
,
compared to the expression in a
1
corpse's eyes
symbolic associations b / winter death
•
+
✓
'
spurs despair =
tied to an understanding of inevitability of death Just as death =
unavoidable
,
so is
any
> this awareness is what causes spkr to feel both pained +
trapped hope of
combating this despair
