(The Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Human Understandings) Dickinson’s short writings can be very hard to comprehend. They can portray one message but actually mean another. A close examination is required for Emily Dickinson’s works. After understanding them, though, they can be very meaningful. Lucy Abbot states, “One of Dickinson’s special gifts as a poet is her ability to describe abstract concepts with concrete images. In many Dickinson poems, abstract ideas and material things are used to explain each other, but the relation between them remains complex and unpredictable.” Therefore it is a good thing to strive to understand and relate to her works, because in the end, there is usually a large benefit. Emily Dickinson’s works of “Because
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Death is not something that is seen or that can be touched, making it a human understanding. We cannot fully understand this however until we experience it, obviously. Dickinson describes that death is not something to be afraid of. For example, “He kindly stopped for me–“ (page 408) This is interesting, but when considering the rest of the poem it tends to make much more since and has a very deep meaning. “Adults, according to this view, regard death as a temporary condition that alternates with life and represents transition between one form of life and another.” (Mike Poynter) In the end, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” uses death as a prime example of something …show more content…
The way that she expresses solitude is more powerful because she loved to be alone herself. Also, in this poem she says, “A soul admitted to itself– Finite Infinity” (page 416) In these lines she asks in a different language, if one knows itself or does it not spend enough time alone to know itself? “I believe that Dickinson turns around loneliness almost entirely here. A much “profounder” sense of solitude is that of the self with itself, self as company.” (Al Filreis) It is obvious that solitude stands for something infinite in “There is a Solitude of
Death is not something that is seen or that can be touched, making it a human understanding. We cannot fully understand this however until we experience it, obviously. Dickinson describes that death is not something to be afraid of. For example, “He kindly stopped for me–“ (page 408) This is interesting, but when considering the rest of the poem it tends to make much more since and has a very deep meaning. “Adults, according to this view, regard death as a temporary condition that alternates with life and represents transition between one form of life and another.” (Mike Poynter) In the end, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” uses death as a prime example of something …show more content…
The way that she expresses solitude is more powerful because she loved to be alone herself. Also, in this poem she says, “A soul admitted to itself– Finite Infinity” (page 416) In these lines she asks in a different language, if one knows itself or does it not spend enough time alone to know itself? “I believe that Dickinson turns around loneliness almost entirely here. A much “profounder” sense of solitude is that of the self with itself, self as company.” (Al Filreis) It is obvious that solitude stands for something infinite in “There is a Solitude of