There’s a certain slant of light

• “That oppresses, like the heft of cathedral tunes” 


  •oppresses is personnification

  •simile

  •large and intimidating and could suggest the feeling of being trapped by the sounds of religion

  •claustrophobic
• “heavenly hurt it gives us“


  •oxymoron

  •alliteration

  •pain is coming from heaven
• “tis like the distance on the look of death” 


  •death is being personified

  •death is looking at her from a distance

  •foreshadowing what will happen when she dies and is a reminder to live a good life and follow god to go to heaven instead of hell
• ”there’s a certain slant of light”


  •suggest the light is coming at an angle and is directly being aimed at her

  •light symbolises God and also life, truth, hope and warmth