An awful Tempest mashed the air
Emily Dickinson * Track #94 On Second Series
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An awful Tempest mashed the air by Emily Dickinson
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This poem, which takes it title from the first line, describes the power and impact of a storm in an imaginative and forceful way; it is a zoomorphised — or maybe anthropomorphized — “Monster” that disrupts peaceful life. It is only when it is over the mood returns once more to peace and “Paradise”...
An awful Tempest mashed the air Annotated
An awful Tempest mashed the air
The clouds were gaunt, and few
A Black — as of a Spectre's Cloak
Hid Heaven and Earth from view
The creatures chuckled on the Roofs
And whistled in the air
And shook their fists
And gnashed their teeth
And swung their frenzied hair
The morning lit — the Birds arose
The Monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast
And peace — was Paradise!