There’s a certain slant of light – Interesting Literature

A Short Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s ‘There’s a certain Slant of light’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

‘There’s a certain Slant of light’ is poem 258 in Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems. It’s one of Dickinson’s more famous poems, though as with much of her finest work the poem resists any straightforward analysis of its meaning. But we’re going to attempt to shed some light on that ‘certain Slant of light’ here.