Brown Bear, What I Learned To Speak

Communication is complete only when the receiver understands the message in the same sense and spirit that sender intends to convey. However, communication does not take place completely because of the illusion that it has been accomplished. The great cause of illusion is sender's inability to understand the audience. Without analysing audience, the chances of effectiveness of the communication decrease.

Communication should be clear so that the other person understands what you are trying to say. If communication is not clear people may feel isolated, anxious, confused, frustrated and even angry. If people are given clear information they are more likely to understand the message that is being delivered.

For Dickinson, sight is the most valuable sense that allowed her to see the world and act based upon whatever situations were thrown 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.

Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul Selects her Own Society” presents herself as absolute and her rights as unchallengeable. The poem puts forward the idea of “friendship or love” which means choosing a significant person and excluding other people. Dickinson reveals that she was shutting people from her life, but because it had been so long, they are no longer interested in taking part of her life. Dickinson’s actions imply that the ability to create and construct a world for oneself, such as choosing your own actions, provides an example of a god-like achievement. Overall, Dickson asserts the importance of “the Self” theme which is shown my just speaking and writing as a ratification of the will to explore and express “the Self” to others.

“Effective communication occurs only if the receiver understands the exact information or idea that the sender intended to transmit. Many of the problems that occur in an organization are: the direct result of people failing to communicate and processes that leads to confusion and can cause good plans to fail” (Clark, 2015).

The one Dickinson wants to have the vision on is not the king, but the dying man on the battlefield. The dying man on the battlefield has failed, he's about to lose his life and he will never be able to reach success, never be able to succeed. So Dickinson's point is the person who will never succeed will always appreciate the true meaning of success over a person who success is just given to them. It's sort of some kind of irony in a

In this piece, she discusses how certain characteristics of the mind make it limited; specifically the selection of those we call friends. She argues that in certain instances our mind shuts the doors to accept anything else into it. The last stanza of the poem recites this poem clearly by saying, “I’ve known her – from an ample nation – Choose One – Then – close the Valves of her attention – Like Stone – ” (414) This idea is the complete reverse of her explanation of the possibilities for the mind, but she is only stating that we can limit our own power through exclusion. Critics have often derived this from several of Dickinson’s poems, especially those about friendship, like Jeffrey E. Simpson observed, “Dickinson’s poems dealing with friendship, together with her letters, define a fragile personal universe always threatening to turn "cold," "frigid,"--impersonal.”

By the mid 1860s, Dickinson was living in isolation with her father, brother, and sister. To her, they were not just family but intellectual companions. Much of Dickinson’s work was influenced by metaphysical poets and also

In life we go through many trials and errors, but we also find it in ourselves to overcome them. Only if we are bold enough will we conquer our weaknesses. When we conquer our weaknesses we will see the true meaning of life.We can compare this to being in a “dark place” making a journey towards the “light.” To do this takes effort but will result in victory for us.When we were in the dark we could barely take a step without figuratively “Hit[ting] a Tree / Directly in the Forehead”(14-15). Yet we traveled towards the light and if we don’t then we are giving up on ourselves.The way that dickinson in her poems Before I got my eye put out and We grow accustomed to the dark viewpoint of sight and darknesses or in other words knowledge and ignorance is the determining factor of how we’ll live life.

Theodora Ward, a transcriber and analyst of Dickinson’s letters, describes the letters and poems to take on “acute sensitivity.” (Ward)

First, a major factor of effective communication is ensuring information is transmitted properly. Loss of information can lead to a miscommunication with possibly catastrophic results. Sara McComb of the University of Massachusetts elucidates “Communication occurs through two processes: the inscription by the sender and interpretation by a receiver” (7). When this two-party system is acknowledged, it is easier to understand how misinterpretations

As if you haven’t already noticed, these letters are all going to revolve around Emily Dickinson. To me, she is a pretty interesting subject to learn and talk about and I hope you are finding these letters interesting as well. Hmmm, your sister called me the other day. I am sorry to hear that you are between houses now. I am assuming that is why I have yet to receive a second letter. You shouldn’t be stubborn and just move in with your sister. She will not think any less of you if you do. Moving away from that topic, this letter is going to contain some incredibility juicy information about a term of my choosing, in relation to Emily Dickinson of course. This is part of an assignment my professor likes to call “critical terms.” Basically, it’s a list of terms that we, the students, have to write definitions to using our big and brainy brains. The term I picked and wrote a definition to was the word “Authors Function.”

Dickinson uses ambiguity to stress the difficulty of knowing and understanding certain experiences and thoughts to the reader. By being deliberately elusive, Dickinson makes the speaker out to be some sort of hero. In a

Life is a mystery in which new discoveries are made on a daily basis. While on a personal level or higher, people 's’ perspectives alter others’ moods and opinions. However, although human beings have traits that allow others to change, can the same be said about texts? The famous author C. S. Lewis once said that “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. (Lewis)” Among this sense of literature, there lies poetry. This form of writing takes the heart and soul of people’s innermost thoughts and questions, and portrays them in a sense that makes the readers themselves question what their reality is. Some scholars would say that no other poet does this better than Emily Dickinson, As an adult, she spent her days within the confines of her home. In this time, she wrote many pieces of short literature that were later discovered. According to the Emily Dickinson Museum, “Her quiet life was infused with a creative energy that produced almost 1800 poems and a profusion of vibrant letters. (Emily Dickinson’s Biography)” Within these collections, Dickinson writes about what seem to be shallow questions, such as the concept of being noticed. However, under the surface, is there more? “The Soul Selects her own Society” represents human understanding as something boundless and unlimited, while “There is a

Shira Wolosky critiques deeper meanings of Emily Dickinson’s poems in her article “Dickinson’s Emerson: A Critique of American Identity,” which originates out of The Emily Dickinson Journal. Thinking deeply in comparison, Wolosky argues that when Dickinson expresses independence and drive to be a part of the American identity Emerson articulates, that she still possesses anxieties over whether this individualism represents something truly beneficial for individuals. Emerson identifies individualism as something illimitable and self-sufficient (Wolosky 136). I agree with Wolosky that Dickinson writes with fervor in expressing that individualism in Emerson’s definition does not give people life worth living; but I do not think that Dickinson holds this opinion completely, rather she still grapples with her individualism.