The thought beneath so slight a film by Emily Dick

За пеленою лёгкой смысл
чуть-чуть яснее зрим,-
как всплеска под гипюром вздым,
иль в дымке - Апеннин...



[Ruth Miller believes that in these four lines Emily gives
us two images for her own poems. Harsh sunlight and photographic
clarity are destructive of truth, and, just as we get a better
idea of the splendour of the Apennines through mists or the surge
of a bosom through lace, so in her poems the thought is
‘more distinctly seen’ for being concealed beneath ‘so slight
a film of difficulty.’ Or as she puts it in poem 1129,’Tell
the Truth but tell it slant.’]

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The thought beneath so slight a film by Emily Dickinson

The thought beneath so slight a film --    
Is more distinctly seen --               
As laces just reveal the surge --          
Or mists -- the Apennine               


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