Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part Two: Nature

LXXXV

A LIGHT exists in spring

  Not present on the year

At any other period.

  When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad        5

  On solitary hills

That silence cannot overtake,

  But human nature feels.

It waits upon the lawn;

  It shows the furthest tree        10

Upon the furthest slope we know;

  It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,

  Or noons report away,

Without the formula of sound,        15

  It passes, and we stay:

A quality of loss

  Affecting our content,

As trade had suddenly encroached

  Upon a sacrament.        20

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life in reclusive isolation. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence. Dickinson was a recluse for the later years of her life.^[2]

While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime.^[3] The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.^[4] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

Although Dickinson's acquaintances were most likely aware of her writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Dickinson's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of her work became apparent to the public. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, though both heavily edited the content. A complete, and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry became available for the first time when scholar Thomas H. Johnson published The Poems of Emily Dickinson in 1955. Despite some unfavorable reception and skepticism over the late 19th and early 20th centuries regarding her literary prowess, Dickinson is now almost universally considered to be one of the most significant of all American poets.^[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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Image: James Tissot

Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: Alphabet (IPA)">[tiso]; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot (/ˈtɪsoʊ/), was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tissot

James Tissot, pseudonyme de Jacques-Joseph Tissot, né à Nantes le 15 octobre 1836 et mort à Chenecey-Buillon le 8 août 1902, est un peintre et graveur français qui a passé une partie de sa vie en Angleterre où il était apprécié comme peintre de la haute société de l'époque victorienne.

Après des études à l'École des beaux-arts de Paris, il expose au Salon de 1859 des œuvres plutôt traditionnelles avant de devenir le peintre des toiles féminines et de la société mondaine de la fin du Second Empire. Après la guerre de 1870 et la Commune de Paris, il s'installe à Londres en 1871 où il réussit brillamment comme peintre de l'élégance féminine et comme caricaturiste pour Vanity Fair. À la mort de sa compagne Kathleen Newton en 1882, il revient à Paris et expose avec succès des portraits de femmes de diverses conditions sociales dans leur environnement quotidien. À partir de 1888, il vit une révélation religieuse et se consacre dès lors jusqu'à la fin de sa vie à des sujets bibliques, nourrissant son art d'observations effectuées lors de voyages en Palestine et à Jérusalem : ces œuvres chrétiennes largement éditées en français et en anglais lui assurent alors une grande renommée.

Peintures

• Deux portraits de femmes, et trois scènes en costume médiéval, Salon de 1859
• La Japonaise au bain, 1864, musée des beaux-arts de Dijon (Dijon)
• The Captain and the Mate, 1873, Southampton City Art Gallery (Royaume-Uni)
• The Captain's Daughter, 1873, Southampton City Art Gallery (Royaume-Uni)
• Ball on Shipboard, vers 1874, Tate Britain (Londres)
• Calcuta, vers 1877, The Gallery of H.M.S. (Portsmouth), Tate Britain (Londres)
• Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1882, musée des beaux-arts de Dijon (Dijon)
• L'ambitieuse, 1883-1885, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo)
• Musée d'Orsay (Paris) :
  • La Rencontre de Faust et de Marguerite, 1860
  • Les Deux sœurs, 1863 (Salon de 1864)
  • Portrait de M^lle L. L. (Salon de 1864)
  • La Rêveuse dit aussi Soirée d'été, vers 1879
  • Evening ou Le bal, 1878
  • Portrait du marquis et de la marquise de Miramon
  • Le Cercle de la rue Royale
  • https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tissot

Quando a esposa de Machado de Assis morreu, o escritor, muito triste, escreveu um poema, um verdadeiro réquiem, no qual se despede de Carolina. 

O soneto, intitulado "A Carolina", faz parte do livro "Relíquias de Casa Velha", publicado em 1906, e foi o último escrito pelo autor. O também escritor Manuel Bandeira destacou este poema como uma das peças mais comoventes da literatura brasileira, de acordo com o "Almanaque Machado de Assis". 

O livro "Toda Poesia de Machado de Assis", de Cláudio Murilo Leal, que reúne pela primeira vez toda a obra poética de Machado de Assis, apresenta o poema e traz uma breve análise. Saiba mais sobre o livro 

Leia abaixo o trecho do livro que apresenta "A Carolina" e a análise do poema. 

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A Carolina 

Querida, ao pé do leito derradeiro
Em que descansas dessa longa vida,
Aqui venho e virei, pobre querida,
Trazer-te o coração do companheiro. 

Pulsa-lhe aquele afeto verdadeiro
Que, a despeito de toda humana lida,
Fez a nossa existência apetecida
E num recanto pôs um mundo inteiro. 

Trago-te flores, - restos arrancados
Da terra que nos viu passar unidos
E ora mortos nos deixa separados. 

Que eu, se tenho nos olhos malferidos
Pensamentos de vida formulados,
São pensamentos idos e vividos. 

Carolina Augusta Xavier de Novaes e Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis casaram-se no dia 12 de novembro de 1869 e viveram uma plácida e amorosa vida conjugal durante 35 anos. A morte da esposa, em 1904, deixa Machado abatido e queixoso. Em carta a Joaquim Nabuco, datada de 20 de novembro do mesmo ano, escreve, lamentando-se: "Foi-se a melhor parte da minha vida, e aqui estou só no mundo." 

Ao lado de conhecidos poemas como "Círculo vicioso" e "A mosca azul", o soneto "A Carolina" é considerado a mais comovente pedra de toque da obra poética de Machado de Assis. 

http://www.olhardireto.com.br/noticias/exibir.asp?id=42457

Image: James Tissot

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