Emily Dickinson

In The Dark Have you ever been left in the dark about something and it felt like you lost your sense of vision? In “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” the poet, Emily Dickinson, is talking about how she lost sight of what was really important, but soon grew accustomed and started to find her way. In “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” the poet, Emily Dickinson, is talking about how she lost her sight in something but she gained her mind and her knowledge. Emily Dickinson’s poems “We grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” both loses something but both react differently. In “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” the poet, Emily Dickinson, is explaining how she lost sight of what was really important’ but soon grew accustomed to the dark and started to find her way. What Dickinson in her poem was that when the light is gone it’s hard to see but as you keep trying to see in the darkness something adjusts itself to make you think that you know what you are doing with yourself. ” When light is put away-... A moment we uncertain …show more content…
What she was saying in her poem was that it was like she knew everything but for herself but what maybe something other people may have told her. But as she lost her eyesight she began to really see and understand thing for herself. “But were it told to me-... the meadows- mine- the mountains- mine-” (5, 9, 10). Before she only knew things if it were told to her by another person, but then she realized that she had to start seeing things for herself and not by other people’s perspective. Now knowing what sight is really worth having had her eye put out it is all too much for her. But now she sees with her soul instead of her eyes or other people’s perspective. So to summarize she stopped seeing with her eyes or off of what someone told her and started to see and understand with her