Emily Brontë's soul "goes skimming the deep keel like a storm petrel, / out of sight."
— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
New Directions
Date
1995
Metaphor
Emily Brontë's soul "goes skimming the deep keel like a storm petrel, / out of sight."
Metaphor in Context
But in between the neighbor who recalls her
coming in from a walk on the moors
with her face "lit up by a divine light"
and the sister who tells us
Emily never made a friend in her life,
is a space where the little raw soul
slips through.
It goes skimming the deep keel like a storm petrel,
out of sight.
(p. 6)
coming in from a walk on the moors
with her face "lit up by a divine light"
and the sister who tells us
Emily never made a friend in her life,
is a space where the little raw soul
slips through.
It goes skimming the deep keel like a storm petrel,
out of sight.
(p. 6)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Anne Carson, Glass, Irony, and God (New York: New Directions, 1995).
Date of Entry
07/17/2010
