"The Sky is low -- the Clouds are mean.

"
By Emily Dickinson
[Analysis]
The Sky is low -- the Clouds are mean. [1]
A Travelling Flake of Snow [2]
Across a Barn or through a Rut [3]
Debates if it will go -- [4]
A Narrow Wind complains all Day [5]
How some one treated him [6]
Nature, like Us is sometimes caught [7]
Without her Diadem. [8]
Poem 1075 [F1121]
"The Sky is low -- the Clouds are mean"
Analysis by David Preest
[Poem]
This poem was written on a November day in 1866 and sent in a letter (L321) to Mrs Holland. It is preceded by the words, 'Today is very
homely and awkward as the homely are who have not mental beauty.'
Emily, to whom the beauty of the seasons meant so much, is able to treat this 'homely and awkward' November day with an amused,
rueful forbearance, even if it was not a day for keeping the door of her Soul 'ajar,' as in poem 1055.
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