Emily Dickinson's Before I Got My Eye Put Out

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Have you ever taken something too literal. Poetry can be an enigma. Emily Dickinson, a poet who expresses her life through metaphorical poems. Metaphorical poems are poems that are used to apply something that is not literally relevant but resembles something else. In the first poem, “We Grow Accustomed To The Dark” , Dickinson explains how her everyday life frustrates her and she was ready for a change. In the second poem, “Before I got my eye put out”, indicates how much Dickinson appreciated her sight before it went away. In this essay there will be some explanations on how Emily Dickinson expresses her life experience in an descriptive way.

But at a point, one must leave the comfort of the light. This symbolizes that one does not have comfort and help from others when stepping into a foreign path of life. Afterwards, when the poem says “A Moment - We uncertain step For newness of the night-.” These two lines confirm that “darkness” is the unknown path people walk. When walking into the unknown, one becomes hesitant and makes an “uncertain step.” But after taking a stride “Then [fits one’s] Vision to the Dark - And [they] meet the Road - erect - .” In the line before, it had said “A Moment”, now the poem states that “Then.” This signifies that when one first goes into the unknown, they have to wait until their “eyes” adjust to the dark. “Then” or after they adjust to the darkness, they are able to “meet the Road”. The “road” signifies one’s future since the poem is about one’s journey into the new unknown and people do not known what their future holds for them. When meeting their future, they stand “erect” or tall to illustrate the imagery of confidence since they can now see in the

The experience of darkness is both individual and universal. Within Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” the speakers engage in an understanding of darkness and night as much greater than themselves. Every individual has an experience of the isolation of the night, as chronicled in Frost’s poem, yet it is a global experience that everyone must face, on which Dickinson’s poem elaborates. Through the use of rhythm, point of view, imagery, and mood, each poet makes clear the fact that there is no single darkness that is too difficult to overcome.

In the beginning, there is very little light. It is almost dusk, and the speaker describes the smell as “dark” (7). Towards the middle and end there are various lights: lanterns, lamplight, fireflies, lamp (9, 11, 13, 20). This change over time depicts the storyteller’s significance to the speaker, because she brought enlightenment to his life. In this poem, light is a metaphor for knowledge, while darkness is a metaphor for ignorance. At the end, the old wise storyteller, who is the embodiment of wisdom, “was the lamplight” (20). In contrast, the two boys, who are young and ignorant, are “in one shadow” (21). The juxtaposition of light with darkness shows that the speaker and storyteller are opposites in their insight. Additionally, it is strange that she is a light before them, yet they are still shadowed. What is blocking the light from them? This metaphor illustrates that it takes time for people to become sage like their elders. As the speaker says, adulthood is “childhood’s aftermath,” which means that the knowledge people gain in childhood will lead them to be wise adults such as the storyteller

In “ We grow accustomed to the Dark “ the poet is very upset that she lost her eyesight and wishes that she still had her eyesight but tolerates the fact that she isn’t getting her eyesight back. In the poem “ Before I got my eye put out “ the poet reacts the same to losing her eyesight , in the beginning of the poem Emily was realizing how much she enjoyed having the ability to see but in the end starts to accept that she doesn’t have her eyesight now which was very similar to the poem , “ We grow accustomed to the

The poem “Before I got my eye put out” portrays the idea that most living things are unable to recognize the beauty of sight until they lose it. The speaker reflects the true beauty of the world when she says “The Motions of the Dipping Birds-/ The Morning’s Amber Road-/ For mine-/ to look at when I liked-/ The News would strike me dead-” (14-17). This demonstrates the image of nature that the speaker “looks at” but actually “sees” the beauty of sight. Dickinson conveys the idea that one’s vision from

Emily Dickinson’s work, “In We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”, is portrayed by showing the contrasting metaphors representing darkness and light. Dickinson includes intensely vivid imagery, a myriad of metaphors and orients the poem in a specific sort of way in order to illustrate the loss of a loved one in her life. The poem is in Dickinson’s or the readers point of view; however she uses "we" in the first line and the title, ultimately to show the poem is meant to be universally understood, by other individuals whom have lost something essential in their daily lives, and now must attempt to live in the darkness which Dickinson resides in as well.

In Emily Dickenson's "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark," and in Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night," the poets use imagery of darkness. The two poems share much in common in terms of structure, theme, imagery, and motif. Both poems are five stanzas long: brief and poignant. The central concepts of being "accustomed" to something, and being "acquainted" with something convey a sense of familiarity. However, there are core differences in the ways Dickenson and Frost craft their poems. Although both Dickenson and Frost write about darkness, they do so with different points of view, imagery, and structure.

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.

“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 on the world. Throughout the poems, Dickinson supports this idea of sight using figurative language- specifically metaphors. In these two poems you will hear a variation of tones from the speakers.

In As we grow accustomed to the dark, the poem has a hidden message about not relying on their eyes to lead the way but to use their soul to guide them. In the poem the speaker was using their eyes to guide their way in the dark, but they couldn't see anything because it was dark out. But when their eyes slowly adjusted to the dark it was like their soul taking over their vision instead of using their eyes to guided them, it was their soul allowing them to see lights in the dark. As to where in the second poem, Before I got my eyes put out, it's about finding beauty not with your eyes but with your soul and heart. In the poem, the speaker first mentions how they can see everything beautiful through their eyes, but later on in the poem, it talks about seeing beauty within using their hearts and souls not their eyes. People's eyes can be misleading, but rarely their soul will mislead the

In “We Grow Accustomed To The Dark” Dickinson starts off the poem with “We grow accustomed to the dark//When light is put away” right off the bat she mentions how you get comfortable with the dark or depression when the light or happiness is put away. In the second stanza of her poem, she says “We uncertain step//For newness of the night” by this she’s saying how our first few moments are uncertain but eventually a step will be taken and that’s how we learn the dark. “Then – fit our Vision to the Dark –” In this quote Dickinson says that we will fit our eyes to grow accustomed to the dark, but what she really means is that we’ll mentally grow used to that bad state of mind, our minds will adapt and once it does it’ll no longer be affected by it. She then says “And meet the Road – erect –” After adjusting to see in the dark and not in the light, walk the road with your back

"Acquainted with the Night" is much more than a poem. It is a mantra, a way of life. This poem can rid the blinding haze from one's eyes. A tiny dose of optimism can go along way--even "beyond the furthest city

Emily Dickinson , a private American poet , whose poems made a lot of metaphorical references had her poems exposed by her younger sister right after she died. As a child Dickinson lived most of her life in isolation which gave her time to write a lot of things like letters and poems like “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” and “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”. Most of her poems aren't literal. They are written in metaphorical ways to make you think. Like her poem “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” , I think this poem is referring to how she wanted to explore the world , but later realized that she would be safer inside where there was shelter and protection. In her poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” I think she refers to how she lost somebody that she was close to , and the problem she encountered along the way as they were gone. Both of these poems are alike in a way that they both talk about losing or giving up on something. In “Before I Got My Eye Put Put Out” the speaker reacts to the loss by giving up and not trying anymore. I think speaker in “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” would react differently and actually try to explore the world and go on an adventure.