There is a Certain Slant of Light: The View from Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom Window

Dickinson family’s Amherst homestead. Emily’s bedroom was on the second story. Here’s one of her poems:

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind–

As if my Brain had split–

I tried to match it–Seem by Seem–

But could not make them fit–

 

The thought behind, I strove to join

Unto the thought before–

But Sequence ravelled out of Sound–

Like Balls–upon a Floor–