Question

The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road. Explain in hindi or gujarati​

Answer 1

Answer:

A Short Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s ‘A Thunderstorm’

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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.

The Wagons quickened on the Streets

The Thunder hurried slow –

The Lightning showed a Yellow Beak

And then a livid Claw.

The Birds put up the Bars to Nests –

The Cattle fled to Barns –

There came one drop of Giant Rain

And then as if the Hands

That held the Dams had parted hold

The Waters Wrecked the Sky,

But overlooked my Father’s House –

Just quartering a Tree –

Emily Dickinson wrote several poems about thunderstorms. As well as ‘The Wind begun to rock the Grass’ she also wrote ‘An awful Tempest mashed the air –’ and ‘The Lightning playeth — all the while –’, which are similarly

concerned with tempests and harsh weather. But ‘The Wind begun to rock the Grass’ is her great thunderstorm poem.

Right from that arresting opening line – and few poets have dealt such a strong line in opening lines than Emily Dickinson – she is out to unsettle us: ‘The Wind begun to rock the Grass’, not ‘The Wind began’. The attempts to wrongfoot us, to put us at our unease, continue with the unusual word-order of the second line: ‘With threatening Tunes and low’. Not ‘With low and threatening Tunes’, which would have scanned identically, but with an effect that comes close to hendiadys, that rare figure of speech whereby the word ‘and’ joins two other words but in an odd way: one of the most oft-cited examples is the Roman ‘we drink from cups and gold’, where ‘cups