Question

In ch after thunderstorm what did the wind fling menace mean

Answer 1

Answer:

This is the second version of a poem which Dickinson wrote in two different drafts in 1864. This version opens, ‘The wind begun to rock the Grass’, and describes the chaos that a storm wreaks upon the world. Worth reading for the following two lines alone: ‘The Dust did scoop itself like Hands / And threw away the Road.’

A Thunderstorm

The Wind begun to rock the Grass

With threatening Tunes and low –

He threw a Menace at the Earth –

A Menace at the Sky.

The Leaves unhooked themselves from Trees –

And started all abroad

The Dust did scoop itself like Hands

And threw away the Road.