Emily Dickinson Literary Devices

The tale of a lost poet
Dickinson tells a story in stanzas of a world too big for her, a world to complicated and chaotic. The choice to have her herself locked up in her own and made world of darkness and simplicity. One that goes with her personality. For her way of explaining this is through poems. That tell darkness as home and the light that is seen as a living nightmare that she experienced for herself.
Emily Dickinson tells that she likes to experience the world through her eyes and that to her knowledge knew no other way to experience the world around her. But the world was too big for her, for her tolerance to the world was only for fine experiences not ones that could break her heart. She then grew wary of the world on the other side of her walls.

“So safer – guess – with just my soul Upon the window pane
Where other creatures put their eyes – …show more content…
Emily Dickinson realized that life is not black and white, light and darkness. And learned that the darkness is much harder that in the light. For in darkness you must feel your way out, the painful way out. For every step in the darkness is a step toward that light of the world. She became a brave one that chose to change darkness instead of darkness changing her.
The speaker for both poems are polar opposites, one talks of a journey in the darkness with a determined tone while the other talks of a dark moment in life with a sorrowful mood. “– We uncertain step
For newness of the night –
Then – fit our Vision to the Dark –
And meet the Road – erect –” The only way how the determined one wants to see again to experience through sight again. For what was lost to hide from the world, the ability to see the world again.
“So safer – guess – with just my soul
Open the window