Life as Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson lived in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the middle child in the Dickinson family and she got inspired to write poetry by the principal of Amherst Academy Leonard Humphrey. In “I think I was enchanted” poem of Emily Dickinson time was not being settled, but what it was made clear is the magic in the setting. There were bees that turned into butterflies, butterflies into swans and nature was murmuring. In “The Brain is wider than the sky”, there is a formal diction in which Emily describes how powerful the brain can be in storing information. In “She Rose to his Requirement”, Emily focuses on a woman who is getting married. She described that being married is giving up some things from the past and get …show more content…
She set up an intellectual tone in order to emphasize a fact that belongs to the brain. Indeed, the title of the poem “The Brain is wider than the sky” is a hyperbole because it exaggerates the characteristic of the brain. Even though, there is a hyperbole and metaphors in the poem, the brain can store infinite information and knowledge. Though it can be considered wider than the sky as it is introduced. As well, she expressed the imagery describing the brain as a …show more content…
The brain is just the weight of God, For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do, As syllable from sound.” In other words, what the author tried to convey is that the brain is being portrayed as being hold from the poles and between them the information will be going around and it will absorb the knowledge. Equally important, in “She rose to his requirement” Emily explained the concept of a woman about to get married, but marking the importance that in order to get married there were things that needed to be left behind to start a new way of life with her husband. Therefore, her poem had an accepting tone because it talked about moving on from single life to married life. The theme of the poem is being accepting changes as a way of being part of life. The diction is formal as well as the topic discussed. Furthermore, Dickinson stated:
“She rose to His Requirement–dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife– If ought She missed in Her new Day,Of Amplitude, or Awe–Of first Prospective–Or the Gold In using, wear
Emily Dickinson lived in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the middle child in the Dickinson family and she got inspired to write poetry by the principal of Amherst Academy Leonard Humphrey. In “I think I was enchanted” poem of Emily Dickinson time was not being settled, but what it was made clear is the magic in the setting. There were bees that turned into butterflies, butterflies into swans and nature was murmuring. In “The Brain is wider than the sky”, there is a formal diction in which Emily describes how powerful the brain can be in storing information. In “She Rose to his Requirement”, Emily focuses on a woman who is getting married. She described that being married is giving up some things from the past and get …show more content…
She set up an intellectual tone in order to emphasize a fact that belongs to the brain. Indeed, the title of the poem “The Brain is wider than the sky” is a hyperbole because it exaggerates the characteristic of the brain. Even though, there is a hyperbole and metaphors in the poem, the brain can store infinite information and knowledge. Though it can be considered wider than the sky as it is introduced. As well, she expressed the imagery describing the brain as a …show more content…
The brain is just the weight of God, For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do, As syllable from sound.” In other words, what the author tried to convey is that the brain is being portrayed as being hold from the poles and between them the information will be going around and it will absorb the knowledge. Equally important, in “She rose to his requirement” Emily explained the concept of a woman about to get married, but marking the importance that in order to get married there were things that needed to be left behind to start a new way of life with her husband. Therefore, her poem had an accepting tone because it talked about moving on from single life to married life. The theme of the poem is being accepting changes as a way of being part of life. The diction is formal as well as the topic discussed. Furthermore, Dickinson stated:
“She rose to His Requirement–dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife– If ought She missed in Her new Day,Of Amplitude, or Awe–Of first Prospective–Or the Gold In using, wear