Accustomed To The Dark Poem

Do you know how does it feel when you lost your sight? In the two poems “ We Accustomed To The Dark,” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” The speakers lost their sight and the feeling of sorrowful. The word darkness in the poem is a figurative language(Metaphor) in the poem. Which means in the poem is that something is imprecise or lost of direction. But, the speaker reacted differently to what they lost. The speaker also shows the importance of our vision. In “We Grow Accustomed To The Dark,” the poem is not mostly about losing sights. What the speaker is really describing is the feeling of what’s happened in the poem. The speaker use the word darkness to represent how he feels. Which it really means is that us sight is getting worse when we felt sorrowful. But at the end of the poem, the speaker adapts the situation by saying, “ The Bravest grope a little and sometimes hit a tree …show more content…
Before the speaker lost sight, the speaker like to see things, and creatures in the world. In the beginning speaker said, “But were it told to me, Today, That I might have the Sky For -mine, I tell you that my Heart Would split, for size of me The Meadows - mine The Mountains mine .All Forests Stintless stars, as much of noon, as I could take Between my finite eyes .” The quote means that the speaker’s vision getting worse, but she is very enjoyed of seeing things before her vision was lost. The speaker also felt a little bit of unlucky of loss the vision because in the quote you can see how important is the speaker feel about sight. Therefore, the real meaning for the darkness is the feeling of that the speaker has for sight. The meaning of those two poems is the lost of direction or sight, and how to find a way to the light. They reacted the opposite way, one speaker fight a the way to fight out of darkness, and the feel unlucky after losing