Emily Dickinson Blindness

Having the ability to is the best thing but most humans take it for granted. By having the sense to see some people may be lacking that sense to see. Usely when communicating people rely one sight, but very few people rely on sight to understand. Emily Dickinson wrote a lot of poems such as “We grow accustomed to the dark” Also “When I got my eye put out.” The Narrative of both poems talk about sight in two different ways. The sense of sight is view in many different ways, Emily Dickinson gives the reader two distinct perspectives.
In these two poems there’s two different perspective of the same thing dealing with blindness in a way. The narrators telling “before I got my eye put out” perspective of sight is seeing tangible objects. The poem storyteller experiences a tragedy in her life that causes her great sadness. But at first she begins telling the reader how life was like with eye sight. Then she transition telling what it was like to lose her sight. “Before I got my eye put out I liked as well to see” By her saying this she took her eye sight for granted but when it got token away from her, she actually saw the true value of life. When I read this I saw how eye sight could really be important. When I lost my eye sight it change the way I saw life out to be. She still talks about what happen in the past b/c she is still stuck on …show more content…
The poem is talking about vision that adjusts to the dark. The narrator speaks about hitting their head on a tree. “Hit a tree directly in the forehead.” The tree represent a life experience that causes emotional pain. As the poem goes on the speakers says that their sight adjust.” The darkness alters or something in the sight adjust itself.” The adjustment is actually emotional wounds that are healing themselves. Like eyes that adjust to the darky pain eventually goes away. Being able to see within you is as important as watching the road