I'LL TELL YOU HOW THE SUN ROSE
BY EMILY DICKINSON
I'll tell you how the sun rose,--
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"
But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot;
others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
-Pablo Picasso
"If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!"
- Claude Monet, flinging away a pair of glasses for which he had been fitted to correct a severe astigmatism.
ABOUT THIS POEM:
meaning:
Exemplified in this poem is Emily Dickinson's pure and beautiful descriptive talent. She looks at something simple and everyday, with the eyes of a child exploring and seeing these things for the first time.
I tend to agree with Freud's opinion when it comes to this poem. He thought that sometimes, just sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar and not a symbol for a penis. This is a poem without hidden meaning for most readers. Just a clean, bright and fresh approach to a plain old sunrise.
imagery:
A nice and recurring image is that of the ribbon crossing the morning sky as the sun rises. This image comes back when she describes the hills untying their bonnets, in other words then streaks of the sunrise becoming brighter and filling the morning sky.
Also the color amethyst of the sunrise is used again in the description of sunset; however it has then taken on a darker color (purple).
Some religious images are used in this poem, namely the dominie (clergymen) and steeple (of a church). The dominie is described as taking the yellow children (rays of the sunset) away after they reach the other side of the stile (steps to climb over a fence). As they climb over the stile, the color of the sunset darkens since night is falling.
symbolism:
Although I expressed my opinion of the meaning of this poem earier, there are those who want to see a meaning in everything (High School English teachers tend to have this nasty trait). Even something that is beautiful because it's simple.
For those people: Some images in this poem are used traditionally in poetry as symbols. The images described of sunrise and sunset are recurring symbols for birth and death. Emily Dickinson has been known to use these symbols in her poetry before.
Ribbons and yellow boys and girls could represent innocence, or the ribbons might also portray vanity. The frantic squirrels could symbolize the frantic pace of life we lead.
Obviously, steeples and a dominie symbolize religion. But if you want to dig deeper, you might even say that the dominie symbolizes the call of God (since he collects the children climbing over the sunset, or death, he would seem a kind person).
ABOUT THE PAINTING:
place and time:
Monet painted this masterpiece when he was visiting the port city of Le Havre in 1872. The outlines were sketched quickly to capture the essence of the moment, after he filled in the blanks at a later time.
representation:
"Soleil Levant" represents the morning sunrise as seen through the mist at the docks. For the non-french-speakers (or those who didn't pay attention in High School) "Soleil Levant" literally means "Sunrise".
Details of the painting are not directly obvious out of context so the painting must be seen in its entirety. People, buildings and ships are vaguely recognizable. But the colors (like blu and orange) used in the painting are unusual since they contrast and thus spring to life even more (they create illusions, or impressions). The combination of colors, blobs of paint representing people or things, and the stroke with which is painted are all typical of the style that Monet brought to life: impressionism.
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WOLFMOTHER
Dimension
I fell down in the desert baby,
I had nothing but a piece of paper, yeah,
I had to write something down,
And I found myself alone, and then I let go of everything,
Into another dimension.
Lightning crash on the hill tonight,(yeah)
I got a feeling everything's gonna be alright
Then a horse came running to me
Said we're gonna go to the sanctuary
Then a storm began to blow,
Into another dimension.
Purple haze is in the sky,
See the angels with dead eyes,
All these things we bow astride
'Till we see the reasons why, oh yeah.
I got lost in the desert baby
I found temples made out of paper
They were drummin' with golden bones
Buildin' dreams out of homes
Then I let go of everything
Into another dimension
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