Emily Dickinson's The Brain Is Wide Then The Sky

In the poem “Much Madness is Divinest Sense”, By Emily Dickinson talks about the two kinds of people that excises in society. The poem start with the person’s “Madness”, Dickinson says “Much Madness is divinest Sense-To a discerning Eye” this means that a person may look like they don’t know what they are talking about or they have a different opinion than the rest of society. In society now a days if you have a different opinion on something or say something is good or bad, people may look at you different. Not everyone thinks the same, every single person has his or hers little world in their head that is complexly different than others. Lot of people that I personally know have change their idea or the way they think just because society

Emily Dickinson was one of the best American poets, but she is very famous for being a secluded writer. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1846 in Amherst, Massachusetts and she died on May 15, 1886 at the age of 55 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her isolation from the outside world still confuses literary critics and readers of her poetry and letters. There are many theories developed over time about her seclusion. Some people believe her secluded way of life was her own choice but she was very close to her family. Emily Dickinson lived in a happy home and went to a school during her life. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830 and lived there all her life most of her life. An introduction into Emily Dickinson’s poetry themes, and discussion about the isolation in her life, and discussion about the isolation in her poetry will be examined in the paper.

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

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

Emily Dickinson is the definition of poetry. Within her poems lies numerous underlying meanings and symbols from her lifetime. When she was just a teenager she left school and became a recluse on her family’s homestead. Where she would begin to write some of the greatest poems in history. It is recorded that she wrote hundreds of little poems on random pieces of paper. Some of her greatest poems were about society during her time period, and they can even relate up to today’s society. Some of her best poems about society are “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” and “Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant”. Both of these poems contain a lot of similarities. However they differ slightly, in saying that, the other really compliments the other within their deeper meanings. Within each of these poems lies metaphors, personification, and inverted syntax.

The last two lines of the poem are a timid reflection on what might happen “Had I the Art to stun myself/ With Bolts—of Melody!” (23-24). The idea that creation is a power that can get loose and injure even the creator illuminates why in this poem the artist positions herself firmly as a mere spectator. In these first two poems, we meet a Dickinson who is not entirely familiar to us—even though we are accustomed to her strong desire for privacy, these poems can be startling in the way they reveal the intensity of Dickinson’s fears. She is, after all, shrinking from what is dearest to her—nature, one of her favorite subjects, becomes a harsh judge, and poetry, her favored medium of communication, can suddenly render the reader “impotent” and the writer “stun[ned]” (19, 23). The extremity of her positions in shrinking from the small and beautiful things she loves creates the sense that this is just the beginning of a journey by leaving so much room for change.

In 'Much Madness is divinest Sense' (435), a definition poem, Emily Dickinson criticizes society's inability to accept rebellion, arguing that the majority is the side that should in fact be considered 'mad.' The perception of madness and insanity are a common theme among Dickinson's poetry, as she fought against society's tainted view of herself as crazy. She focuses on how judgmental society is on non conformist views when she describes the majority as 'discerning' (line 2). As similar to most of her poetry, she writes in iambic meter and uses slant rhyme, as lines one, three, and seven end with 'Sense', 'Madness', 'dangerous', and lines six and eight, in 'sane' and 'Chain' in seemingly rhyme scheme. Dickinson credits the majority

When Dickinson states, “Blue to Blue,” in lines 5-6, it represents the sea and something deep because the brain is not the color blue. When she says, “Pound to Pound,” in lines 9-10, it actually mimics what she said in the second stanza, exemplifying a similarity. There are several themes in this poem including

        Dickinson also has a discrete style of writing poetry. She is very quiet and pacified when writing her poems.  She writes in quick little stanzas and brief thoughts.  A poem that pops up when talking about Emily Dickinson is “Success is counted sweetest.”  This poem tells about how success is so grand to those who have never experienced success.  She says that in order to achieve success you have you have the most extreme need for it.  In the poem, she talks about a soldier who is dying and how he was so close, but at the same time, so far away

Emily Dickinson, like many writers, wrote about her own interests. Although few of her works were published while alive, the topics, which she did write about, were relevant to her life – topics that are still relevant today. The three poems that I chose share commonalities, but are executed in unique ways. In her writing she has a tendency to leave room for the reader to express their own opinion on the piece, this allowing room for personal reflection and connection. For readers, this can mean that the writing becomes their “own” – they can identify with it. The three poems chosen all speak about topics that are rich with context and meaning – faith, mental illness, and personal vision. These characteristics are only noticed if one has the

Emily Dickinson is an American poet born in Amherst Massachusetts December tenth, 1830. As a child Dickinson’s love for books was massive yet she did not start writing poetry until she was eighteen. However, she was not known of until after her death. Nonetheless, some people other than her family did now about Dickinson’s remarkable poems. Furthermore, most tried encouraging her to publish her poems yet others did the contrary. Emily Dickinson’s life is what caused her to write such great poetry.

Emily Dickinson a modern romantic writer, whose poems considered imaginative and natural, but also dark as she uses death as the main theme many times in her writings. She made the death look natural and painless since she wanted the reader to look for what after death and not be stuck in that single moment. In her poems imagination play a big role as it sets the ground for everything to unfold in a magical way. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. She turned increasingly to this style that came to define her writing. The poems are rich in aphorism and dense

In Emily Dickinson’s lyrical poem “There’s a certain slant of light” she describes a revelation that is experienced on cold “winter afternoons.” Further she goes to say that this revelation of self “oppresses, like the Heft of Cathedral Tunes” and causes “Heavenly Hurt”, yet does not scare for it is neither exterior nor permanent. This only leaves it to be an internal feeling, and according to Dickinson that is where all the “Meanings” lie. There’s no way for this feeling to be explained, all that is known is that it is the “Seal Despair”, and an “imperial affliction”. These descriptions have a rather powerful connotation in showing the oppressive nature of his sentiment. There is an official mark of despair and an imperial affliction

Remember viewing the world through of the lens of adolescence? That all-encompassing innocence which drives headfirst into all of life's experiences with passionate optimism. Emily Dickinson definitely remembered that youthful spirit, as it's something she carried with her long into her adult years; not only in her personal life, but in her poetry as well. Even though the standards of verse were quite set in stone at the time, Dickinson followed in the footsteps of Isaac Watts and wrote what she wanted, how she wanted. It's this unique sense of free verse that is acutely visible within her poem "The Sun", and that's not the only childish attribute to be found within it. In the same way, it's structure contains a youthful sense of freedom from regulations, the poems content is centered around the view of the sun and nature in general, from the perspective of a young child. Powerfully using this ingenious idea, Dickinson adeptly manages to spread the childlike infectious admiration of the sun, while maintaining a stunning imagery that immerses the reader in the experience of viewing the sky in all it's magnificence.

The human brain is considered the most complex tissue among all creatures, and the home of our imagination. In the poem, The Brain is Wider than the Sky, Emily Dickinson investigates this idea by taking unfathomable concepts, such as the abysmal ocean or the vastness of the sky, and comparing it to the capability of the human mind. Dickinson believes that the brain can contain largeness in the figurative sense through thought and imagination, making the brain larger figuratively than its comparison is literally. Through her use of metaphors in the poem, Dickinson explicates the immeasurability of human consciousness.