Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 As Imperceptibly As Grief The excellence of this poem competes with "There's a certain slant of light," and, like that poem, it represents Emily Dickinson at her best on the subject of nature. Sometimes she can be trite, trivial or childishly simplified with nature subjects but here she is not. Perhaps the key to the greatness of both poems is in the additional thematic overtones they offer, for life and death - time - are their topics, as well as nature. To say that the first stanza states how "imperceptibly" the summer passed - which it does - is proof of how ridicul...
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