Poem

There's nothing wrong with a little change, but how do we always know which path to go down without guidance? In the poem, “We Grow Accustomed To The Dark”, Dickinson uses different examples to depict her life. Overall her message is how difficult it can be to emotionally adapt to something different. For example, in stanza two it states,”A Moment - We uncertain step/ For newness of the night -...”. This quote is portraying to me that when we are unaware of what our next step is in life, we try to prepared for the unexpected.

Emily Dickinson’s poem, We Grow Accustomed to the Dark, is a poem about people slowly becoming “accustomed” to the darkness which ultimately leads the person to see their path, or direction of life, again. Dickinson’s poem starts by pointing out that people “grow accustomed to the Dark when the light is put away.” This implies that people will adapt to darkness, or their emotions of stepping into an undiscovered road, once light, or our comforts, is put away. The poem goes on by stating that “the Neighbor holds the Lamp to witness her Goodbye.”When people say goodbye, close acquaintances and family still linger around to see the other person leave. The neighbor represents the aforementioned sentence since when the person is leaving, the “neighbor” watch the person leave.

The poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark “ to me is about us ,humans , overcoming setbacks.There is always going to be people or things that will try to get in the way of us being successful . The negative energy which the poet symbolized with “ darkness” will try to stop your success . Success is symbolized with “ light “ or “eyesight” which will overcome the darkness in this poem . Us becoming accustomed and or use to the darkness is us becoming use to the negative energy that tries to stop us from becoming great at our talent or whatever activity you are pursuing . In Emily Dickinson poem “ We grow accustomed to the Dark” ,she talks about how we get use to the darkness meaning we get use the people that want you to fail or the major setbacks that are coincidentally thrown in your direction while we are working our way to the stop.

Throughout many novels different characters are sent to a new place to explore and find new things in life. An excellent example would be how the characters in the novel Poisonwood Bible explore a new lifestyle in the Congo. While they are there they have to learn how to adapt to a new life, and they try and teach the Congolese people how to worship the God, Jesus Christ. Even though the Congolese people may believe in different Gods, the Price family, especially Nathan feels that it is their duty to teach them different ways. Thus the poem We Grow Accustomed To The Dark by Emily Dickinson, is similar because it is talking about how people become accustomed to a different lifestyle just like the Price family did in the Poisonwood Bible. In

In the first poem called We grow accustomed to the Dark, the speaker finds her way through the dark night, as her eyes adjust to the darkness, she notices there’s “a road,” and specs of light where her curiosity grows. She notices things you cannot see in the daylight like the specs of stars and the bright moon. But before she was aware of her

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.

“We grow accustomed to the dark” talks about sight in a literal and metaphorical sense. Emily Dickinson has a great way of making the readers really think about what they just read. Not only is the poem powerful and intriguing, you question what you

Emily Dickinson spent most of her life isolated from society in her room. This isolation gave Dickinson the keys for success. Unfortunately, her fame was not in the time while she was alive. In time, Dickinson would write thousands of poems about what she observed about nature through her room window. One component of nature that she carefully observed was death and sight as well as the correlation of the two.

A common motif established in Dickinson’s “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” is the concept of darkness and night, and how overwhelmingly consequential the effects of being submerged in darkness may have on a person. The concepts are intertwined within each poem, and can be compared and contrasted through the literary elements of point of view, imagery, and structure.

Yet, Emily Dickinson has a polarized tone in her “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.” The poem acknowledges that “Those Evenings of the Brain” (Dickinson 10) are horrible, but that “Darkness alters” (Dickinson

getting used to the warmth of the Darkness as you begin to maneuver your way around in it. It also discusses how this person isn't afraid to make mistakes because soon with time and patience they will soon get used to all the obstacles in the darkness. Loss of eyesight can symbolize various meanings such as pain, ignorance, etc. For example in the fifth stanza Dickinson states “And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead – But as they learn to see –” (Dickinson). This quote shows how they may stumble and get hit but they're not gonna quit and they're going to learn to see. This poem expands on the metaphor of

The significance of darkness in Dickinson’s piece is representative of the unfamiliarity one finds when coming out of their comfort zone. Dickinson exemplifies this by taking away something familiar, a neighbor, and replacing it with an unfamiliar, uncomfortable darkness. Dickinson then shows the struggle to adapt to the new change, and shows readers that only brave people actually fight through the pain to alter the darkness. "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" is an elaborate metaphor, or conceit, for the struggles of leaving one’s comfort zone and overcoming the fears that come with that action. Contrary to Dickinson’s poem, Frost’s piece used night as a symbol for something much different: depression.

"We grow Accustomed to the Dark" is a very thick and layered poem that embodies several literary elements. In essence the beginning of the poem is about how being in the dark for a certain amount of time, light hurts, or is

I did not understand the poem at first either. I had to read the poem ten times before fully comprehending and I am sure this poem can still be interpreted many other ways. Like yourself, I am an introverted person and I believe Emily Dickinson was feeling the same way suffocated by the pressures of being somebody in a world filled with arrogant people croaking about how great they are in the world. The video on YouTube read by Yina Liang , she makes a good point that we have outside pressures of family and friends wanting us to be someone spectacular such as a Lawyer or doctor, but sometimes you want to escape and be nobody in the

In lines 13-20 I think that it is telling us that even the bravest and strongest go into these times of darkness and fogginess and that as everyone enters one of these states, they adjust to “the darkness”. I also think that it is saying that once we become adjusted to it, life’s road becomes dull and strait, and because of this, life is no longer an adventure, rather it is just a straight, gray