Beclouded
Beclouded - meaning Summary
Nature Mirrors Human Mood
This short poem sketches a cold, bleak day and uses that weather to reflect human feeling. Dickinson depicts low sky, petty clouds, a drifting flake and a complaining wind to suggest small, domestic discomforts rather than grand catastrophe. Nature behaves as if affronted or diminished, and the poem closes by equating that temporary loss of pride with our own moments of exposure or humility. The tone is wry and sympathetic, turning a modest rural scene into a meditation on vulnerability and the everyday ways dignity can be stripped away.
Read Complete AnalysesThe sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.
Feel free to be first to leave comment.