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Read & copy the quotation
“The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go.”
- Date
- 1890
Meaning of “The sky is low, the clouds are mean,…”
Low cloud, uncertain snow and cramped rural space give the weather a subdued emotional atmosphere without turning the natural scene into a simple moral lesson.
Where does it come from?
“Beclouded,” in Poems: First Series (1890), Project Gutenberg #12242. Nature is personified in the poem; the editorial heading and punctuation reflect the early printed edition.
