The Lightning is a yellow Fork Themes
Awe and Amazement
From the opening line of "The Lightning is a yellow Fork," we get the feeling that the speaker is talking around something rather than talking about it. Why? Well, sometimes you're just so bowled o...
Spirituality
The speaker of "The Lightning is a yellow Fork" definitely believes in something – the question is, what? We're not sure, and neither is she. However, not understanding something doesn't mean you...
Man and the Natural World
Weirdly enough, the "natural world" in "The Lightning is a yellow Fork" is mostly communicated in terms of the opposite of nature – domesticity. Dickinson craftily describes a natural phenomenon...
Wisdom and Knowledge
Living as we do in the age of the Internet, where it seems like all the world's knowledge is at our fingertips, it may be hard to put ourselves in Emily Dickinson's 19th-century shoes. Our technolo...