O Poema da Semana - Emily Dickinson

      ‘So preconcerted with itself — / So distant — to alarms’ … the aurora borealis seen over the Santanoni Preserve in     Newcomb, New York. Photograph: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

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Of Bronze — and Blaze —
The North — tonight —
So adequate — it forms —
So preconcerted with itself —
So distant — to alarms —
An Unconcern so sovreign
To Universe, or me —
Infects my simple spirit
With Taints of Majesty —
Till I take vaster attitudes —
And strut opon my stem —
Disdaining Men, and Oxygen,
For Arrogance of them —

My Splendors, are Menagerie —
But their Competeless Show
Will entertain the Centuries
When I, am long ago,
An Island in dishonored Grass —
Whom none but Daisies — know.

“Charged particles from the sun entering Earth’s atmosphere create the vibrant colours,” says this guide to the best views of the Northern Lights in the US. Look at the view from the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge to get an idea of the impressive aurora borealis Emily Dickinson might have been able to see from her home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/may/11/poem-of-the-week-of-bronze-and-blaze-319-by-emily-dickinson