Emily Dickinson's Poem We Grow Accustomed To The Dark

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In the poem “We grow accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickinson, she described the darkness, which the of her loss eyesight. Dickinson believes that you can loss and gain sight but you have to learn how to gain it. “And sometimes hit a Tree/Directly in the Forehead /But as they learn to see”. In this quote Dickinson demonstrates that eyesight can to gained by experience. Eyesight can be gained by experience because if you as the fail they will also learn. For example, when you walk into your house when it’s dark to turn on your light. You may walk into the table but as you repeat this process you will learn where the table is. The light inside of you can help you get through the darkness situations in life.

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