Emily Dickinson's Poetry Analysis

Firstly, readers decide on which of Emily Dickinson’s poems present human understanding as boundless and unlimited. Of course, for most this is all speculation, but this is one of Dickinson’s most prevalent poem that seems to present human understanding as boundless and unlimited. One example is, The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky is a poem that embodies this view of human understanding as boundless and unlimited. This poem’s main focus is the power and strength of the human brain or mind. This line from the text is a perfect representation of human understanding as boundless and unlimited, “The Brain-is wider than the Sky-...The one the other will contain”(Stanza 1, Line 1,3). These lines state the the brain or rather the mind is greater in size than the sky. It is saying

Emily Dickinson is one of the most influential figures in American literature. Her unusual character and style has made her become one of America’s best and most original poets of all time. She composed almost 1800 poems, but fewer than a dozen were published in her lifetime. In her poems, she expresses her feelings about identity, religion, nature, love, and death. Her poems tell us a lot about her lifestyle, which was very private and reserved from society. In poems 260 and 409 it talks about the theme of identity. Although they consist of the same theme, there are differences in meaning, tone, and narration.

In reality, she's explaining how much she appreciated her eyesight before she lost it. In stanza ne it states, “... I liked as well to see/ As other creatures, that have eyes -” This quote is showing me that Dickinson is thinking about when she was able to see life others and how much you enjoyed seeing the things she could see. Also throughout the poem, even though Emily missed her sight she explains how much of a different it was for her to see now and how she can see through her soul. To be further explained, Dickinson says she pretty much took be able to see for granted and that it upsetted her to have abused her sight and not able to see things with her “finite

The image that is firstly drawn in the first stanza is that of a blade of grass amid a field and the

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.” concerned initially with how we reflect on solitude, the stars, and the grandeur of nature, symbolized in the stars that Emerson views at night, and focuses on how we perceive objects around us. Emerson speaks of the landscape in which he walks and how he, as a poet, can best integrate all that he sees. What is most important in this sequence is the similar ways we perceive the various objects — stars, the landscape, and the poet.(117)

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

In line 6 the writer gives us an image in the phrase the snake slides away. Here the writer describes the wonderful movement of a snake that can make you carious to know how it is created. Furthermore in the same line the speaker give us a simile when she describes the jumping of a fish like a little lily which is “type of plant that grows from a bulb and that has large white or coloured flowers”.( Oxford dictionary 2006)The writer also gives us another great image of nature :The gold finches sing from the unreachable top of the tree . Here unreachable top of the tree is connected to the first line of the poem where there are things you can’t reach even if you want to like the gold finches who sing from a far place. In line 7 the writer invites us to look at nature by saying I look and then saying morning to night where she means she looks at nature all day long without feeling bored or done with looking.

The poem contains two stanzas with two different settings. One might not know much about the first stanza; however, in the second one the speaker is next to an ocean, perhaps, at a beach. So, while the first stanza symbolizes the mindset of the speaker, the inner dream, the second stanza symbolizes the outer dream which is what we see; life. The poem

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean” (Socrates). What does it mean to be this type of poet? How can someone accomplish such success in poetry, the answer is just two words Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson spent a large portion of her life in isolation, not because she was forced to or because she was ill, Dickinson simply wanted to be alone and because of her isolation she became one of the greatest female poets of all time. Emily Dickinson set the bar high for other female poets and created some of the most renowned poems in the world. The two poems “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” and “Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant” are drastically different poems that tell two different stories, but there are some aspects that cause them to be similar: Imagery, tone, and the statement that the two poems make.

     Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous authors in American History, and a good amount of that can be attributed to her uniqueness in writing. In Emily Dickinson's poem 'Because I could not stop for Death,' she characterizes her overarching theme of Death differently than it is usually described through the poetic devices of irony, imagery, symbolism, and word choice.

The dashes indicate a pause. The dash is put there to show that the speaker is pausing to question his motives for dying for something such as beauty. In the second section, Dickinson’s choice of words “failed” instead of “died” “He questioned softly ‘Why I failed’?”, reflects that the main speaker did not only fail by dying, but that he failed in life.

The thoughts start off as a field of snow, representing how heaven is usually interpreted as being in the sky, on or above the clouds, but then the field changes to a meadow of dandelions, which represents a specific individual’s perception of heaven. Like many other things in life, we all have our different ideas of what heaven is like and how it looks, showing individual thoughts on heaven and, on a larger scale, life. Like this invention of heaven, as the poem is aptly named, we are not usually forced to make our life decisions, we have the ability to decide for ourselves what we do, even if they are very bad decisions. It’s a part of humanity as a whole, with increased rights for the

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born December 10, 1830, into an influential family in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father helped found Amherst College, where Emily later attended between 1840 and 1846. She never married and died in the house where she was born on May 15, 1886.

Next, the speaker states “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain--/Or rather--He passed Us--.” The speaker is aware now that she is leaving her world, the earth, to company Death in his world. Also, the speaker says “The Dews drew quivering and chill--/For only Gossamer, my

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”