Emily Dickinson's We Grow Accumstomed To The Dark

Emily Dickinson’s poem, We Grow Accumstomed to the Dark, it is said that people slowly become “accumstomed” to darkness which ultimately leads to an almost straight life. Dickinson’s poem starts by pointing out that people become used to the darkness once light is put away. This implies that people will adopt to darkenss, or our emotions, once light, or our comfort and hopes are put away. Then the poem states that the neighbor holds up a lamp to witness the goodbye. When people say goodbye, they still linger around to see the other person leave. This is like the neighbor holding the lamp to say goodbye, since when one goes into darkness, close aquintances watch them leave. Afterwards, when it says “A Moment - We uncertain step For newness of …show more content…
When meeting their future, they stand “erect” or tall to illustrate the imagery of confidance since they can now see in the darkness. The next few lines establishes that the darkness happens all in one’s head, or in the “Evenings of the Brain.” The lines also say that these darkness can become bigger without any light and hope such as the “Moon” or the “Star.” But in the next stanza, Dickinson declares that the “Bravest” look and wave their hands in the darkness, looking for a path. Dickinson continues by pointing out that the “Bravest” can bump into a “Tree.” This signifies that the “Bravest” can come face problems in their dark path. But they will “learn to see”though the problems they have faced. This is because the “Bravest” were able to change themselves to the darkness and now they can see their path. After being able to see their path again, and their “path” or life looks “almost straight.” At the end, Dickinson writes that the path is “almost straight.” This signifies that no one’s life is going to be perfect, and the life can still have darkness awaiting. The use of darkness is thoughout the poem. Darkenss is shown as the unknown path one has in