Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Explain the line: the lightning showed a yellow beak, And then a livid claw.

Explain the line: the lightning showed a yellow beak, And then a livid claw.

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I think that Dickinson is referring to a storm as if it were some giant predator kind of bird.

The lightning showed a yellow beak

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