Superior Glory be
But that Cloud and its Auxiliaries
Are forever lost to me
Had I but further scanned
Had I secured the Glow
In an Hermetic Memory
It had availed me now.
Never to pass the Angel
With a glance and a Bow
Till I am firm in Heaven
Is my intention now.
About the author
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is an American female poet who is born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended a female school in South Hadley when She was young, but her severe homesickness made her go back to her hometown in a year. She mostly stayed in her house, and not many people came to visit her. But her thought about poetry were created through the people she came into close relation. One person that made an enormous impact to her poetry life was Reverend Charles Wadsworth. After his leaving in the 1860s, many people believe this was the point when Emily Dickinson's poem became more gloomy and the tone sounds a lot depressed. Many of her poetry were dark and gloomy, for it tells about how she feel in her loneliness. But there are other poems written by her which acts as life- supporting writing. Emily Dickinson's time in her home increase a lot in the 1860s. She died in her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts in 1886, but her death allowed many of her writings to be revealed and be well-known
Personal Response
This poem has a dark tone of loneliness as I read
each words of the poem. For a text-to-text connection, the poem has a similar
tone color with a quote by Mark Twain about how all people are related with the
moon. For a text-to-self connection, the poem pretty much relates to the
emotion about me when I blankly stare at the sky for a peaceful quiet time, or
when I have a depressing moment. Pretty much, it’s amazing how there are many
poems that relate to me personally or about my life. For a text-to-world
connection, the poem would have the relation with depressed people or for
people who look at the sky when they are on a long thought process for
anything. One phrase that stood out the most in this poem was “But that Cloud and its Auxiliaries Are forever lost to me”
Because this phrase sounds like as if they clouds were filled with music, but
the person could not hear that music and let it flow out into thin air. The
thing I liked about the poem is that the poem has a good expression with
emotional tone color. What I would suggest in the poem is to put a bit more
detail in the poem to emphasize the reader’s perspective into the poem to have
a deeper meaning. Allowing that to happen would just be amazing when readers
try to read this poem. The deeper emotional feeling would impact the poem’s stanzas
as the readers read through each stanza.
TP-CASTT analysis
TITLE
The title A cloud withdrew from the Sky pretty much tells me about how lonely this poem is. The sky is covered with clouds, showing that it is filled with something. But the title express how lonely the sky is without the clouds around it.I never tried reading this particular genre of a poem, so I am new to this type. But I guess the poem tells how lonely the poet is feeling as she was writing this.
PARAPHRASE
A Cloud withdrew from the Sky
Superior Glory be
But that Cloud and its accesories
Are gone from me.
Had I but further scanned
Had I secured the Glow
In a deep and heavy Memory
It had taken an advantage toward me now.
Never to go beyond the Angel
With a small glance and even a gentle Bow
Until I am able to be in Heaven
This is my intention for now.
CONNOTATION
1. speaker- the author who is lonely audience- none
2. imagery- sight (scanned, glance), taste-none, touch-none, smell-none, hear-none
3. repetition- none
4.structure- Rhyme scheme- ABCBABCBABCB
ATTITUDE
Dark, gloomy, sad, lonely, depressed, grieving. The tone in the poem never had any shift and the emotional feeling in the poem remains the same.
SHIFT
1st quatrain (line 1-4)- the speaker talks in a dark tone about how the cloud withdrawing from the sky has no impact on her life
2nd quatrain (line 5-8)- the speaker tells about a deep memory that she tried to think more about, but that time took an advantage(?) over her life.
3rd quatrain (line 8-12)- the speaker suddenly puts herself in a perspective of her afterlife.
TITLE
After going through the poem the second time, I didn't feel a change on what the title says, but I did think again on the loneliness view. I just thought of the loneliness point of view only on the speaker, but after reading the poem for the second time putting myself in the speaker's perspective, the poem was trying to show that it is not only lonely, but also it wanted people to know what kind of life she is living in.
THEME
1. Don't ever think you're alone, for there is always someone besides you
2. Never think too short about life, for there may be a day where you can shine
3. what goes out must come back
REFERENCE
Dickinson, E. (1945). A cloud withdrew from the sky. Website. Retrieved from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-cloud-withdrew-from-the-sky/
