Before I Got My Eyes Put Out

depressed, we don’t know where we’re going. In the poem “before my eye got put out” she saying how other people see things differently than she does. In the poem “Before i got my eye put out” the speaker react differently to the story to the speaker in the “We grow accustomed to the dark” by the speaker. In “Before I got my eye put out” she is saying how everyone see things only from the outside not the inside. When you got her eye put out, people react to her like a monster. In the poem “We grow

In the poem “Before I got my eye put out” the speaker loses a sense of taking things for granted. When the speaker realizes this change, she is overwhelmed with the way she saw things. In the poem “Before I got my eye put out” there is a line that states “ As much of noon as I can take”. This line represents and further explains how the speakers sight is affected by the change that she goes through. By her saying “as much as I can take” that shows the reader that now there is a limit to the amount

and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out”, completely understands its importance. In the poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” the speaker talks about how new things occur and many changes come in life and how unpredictable it can be. In the poem “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” the speaker talks about how big the world is and how some people only get to see some of it. These poems are related therefore they have many similarities but they also have many differences. Dickinson wrote the poem “Before I got

the dark” and “Before I got my eye put out”. Both have different meanings of sight, which can change how you think of the meaning of sight. Emily Dickinson, the author of these poems, started to have aches and pain in her eyes which slowly was depleting her sight. But this disability never stopped her from being able to “see”. “We grow accustomed to the dark” focuses on every aspect of the word “sight”. It can be perceived as literal or metaphorical. While “Before I got my eye put out” is only talking

Batoyun Professor Pingel English 121 25 October 2017 Poem 327: Before I Got my Eye Put Out America’s greatest, most original poets of all time, Emily Dickinson, suffered from iritis - an inflammation of the fine muscles of the eye that causes blurring of vision, difficulties with prolonged periods of reading, and headaches. In 1862, Dickinson expressed her reflection of losing sight through the poem, “Before I got My Eye Put Out” (327). She emphasizes the importance and power of sight through

In both of Emily Dickinson’s poem she refers to her sight. In the poem, ”Before I Got My Eye Put Out,” it’s about her lost of sight, but throughout the poem she has many metaphors about her lost of sight. Like in the first stanza she’s talking about how she liked and enjoyed her sight when it was good but didn’t appreciate it as much when she had it. Then in her other poem, “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark,” it’s saying how her sight is bad but she’s getting used to the dark and can get around much

which is “Before I got my eye put out” was a poem written by Emily Dickinson obviously. The poem could have had many interpretations to it. The way “Before I got my eye out” was portrayed was that the speaker was visionless but had a connection with the nature and the outside world. Meanwhile in “We grow accustomed to the dark” the speaker was led for a short period of time but then had to grasp everything on her own. In the poem “Before I got my eye put out”, the speaker is using her eye as a metaphor

“What is the speaker really saying about sight?” The poems, We Grow Accustomed to the Dark and Before I Got My Eye Put Out written by Emily Dickinson, mainly focus on sight. The first poem centers around this idea of being in a dark state. If someone condemns themself to darkness they might not recognize the light and good in the world. The second poem shows how the speaker is dealing with the loss of her eyesight and possibly taking it for granted. In each poem the speaker shares their own perspective

at her. In her poems, it seems that “darkness” would be a metaphor for the uncertainty, subsequently allowing “sight” to be a metaphor for how we tend to react to this uncertainty. Her two poems, “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” seem to share the same representation and message that sight isn’t only a physical sense, but more importantly it’s the way our minds can adjust to see problematic situations with a different outlook. Dickinson’s tone seems to portray

accustomed to the dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” both of the speakers learned how to adjust in the darkness. The speakers from the both poem felt lost and lonely at first but with time they adjust and learn to see in their own way. However in one poem the speaker experiences physical darkness and the other experiences metaphorically. In the poem of “We grow accustomed to the Dark” In the poem of “Before I got my eye put out” the speaker lost the vision of her eyes. Which made her feel sad