Ashley Castro
ENGL 25000
Professor Magnet The poem I chose was “Our lives are Swiss” by Emily Dickinson. I felt many emotions from this poem as categorize them. I ended up with the categories of solitude, disquietude and curiosity. She seems to feel that she is being deprived of this life other than the one she is used to and comfortable with. She mentions in the poem of these curtains and the neglect of making sure they are there. She is seeing past these so called curtains and seeing a different life. She is curious but she doesn’t want to be because she is so comfortable with her life. She is looking figuratively out this window that was once covered with curtains and now is bare for her to see all these things and different ways of living around her. The category of solitude is basically brought on by this image of her staring out this window alone wondering if she dares to open it and be outside her comfort zone. Even thinking about living this completely new life. She is fearful of this life outside the figurative window with the neglected curtains. Which is Italy, this completely opposite place from where she is living and is use too. She describes a bit about …show more content…
Which is the purpose of the curtains to block her view from the window. She could mean this mentally or physically. She could mentally not even have thought about being someone else or being a different way until a certain time when the “curtains” came down. By physically I mean she probably thought this life was it for her until an opportunity came around where she could abandon or neglect the life style she is use to completely. She is kind of a reserved person she is possibly comparing herself to Sweden in a way. She sees the opportunity to change but for her it’ll never happen maybe because of comfort or fear but in line 10 she wrote that they will “forever
ENGL 25000
Professor Magnet The poem I chose was “Our lives are Swiss” by Emily Dickinson. I felt many emotions from this poem as categorize them. I ended up with the categories of solitude, disquietude and curiosity. She seems to feel that she is being deprived of this life other than the one she is used to and comfortable with. She mentions in the poem of these curtains and the neglect of making sure they are there. She is seeing past these so called curtains and seeing a different life. She is curious but she doesn’t want to be because she is so comfortable with her life. She is looking figuratively out this window that was once covered with curtains and now is bare for her to see all these things and different ways of living around her. The category of solitude is basically brought on by this image of her staring out this window alone wondering if she dares to open it and be outside her comfort zone. Even thinking about living this completely new life. She is fearful of this life outside the figurative window with the neglected curtains. Which is Italy, this completely opposite place from where she is living and is use too. She describes a bit about …show more content…
Which is the purpose of the curtains to block her view from the window. She could mean this mentally or physically. She could mentally not even have thought about being someone else or being a different way until a certain time when the “curtains” came down. By physically I mean she probably thought this life was it for her until an opportunity came around where she could abandon or neglect the life style she is use to completely. She is kind of a reserved person she is possibly comparing herself to Sweden in a way. She sees the opportunity to change but for her it’ll never happen maybe because of comfort or fear but in line 10 she wrote that they will “forever