Emily Dickinson

The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean,

The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean, - meaning Summary

Winter's Small Indignities

Dickinson sketches a bleak winter scene and uses small, domestic images to suggest mood and temperament. Sparse actions—a drifting flake, a narrow wind—are personified and shown hesitating, complaining, or diminished. The poem links human feeling and nature: both can be petty, vulnerable, and stripped of dignity. Its compact observations turn everyday weather into a quietly ironic reflection on loss, pride, and shared fragility.

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The 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.

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