Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In other words, everyone interprets the world in a different way. One poet who truly has her own unique view on life is Emily Dickinson. Dillan states, “By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely.” While she was alive, Dickinson only published a handful of poems. Emily dickinson’s poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close”, and “The Brain is Wider that the Sky”, all present the human understanding as boundless and unlimited.
The first of Dickinson’s poems that presents the human understanding as boundless and unlimited is “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”. This poem is a lyric poem on the theme of death. Tate conveys, “The framework of the poem is, in fact, the two abstractions, mortality and eternity, which are made to as to sociate in perfect equality with the images: she sees the ideas. and thinks the perceptions.”Dickinson poem is truly inspiring in simply the way she writes it. She shows in detail what she is thinking while still only saying a few words. Dickinson states on page 409, “Since then-’tis Centuries-and yet feels shorter than the day I first …show more content…
Thompson illustrates, “We distance ourselves from nature and proclaim our superiority over it by being able to comprehend it, Dickinson undermines this distance by having the brain—a material thing of nature—be that which does the comprehending.” The brain is like a sponge that can comprehend almost anything the world has to throw at it. Dickinson states, “The brain is deeper than the sea.” The brain has more depth than many people realise. Obviously, the third poem is “The Brain is Wider than the
The first of Dickinson’s poems that presents the human understanding as boundless and unlimited is “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”. This poem is a lyric poem on the theme of death. Tate conveys, “The framework of the poem is, in fact, the two abstractions, mortality and eternity, which are made to as to sociate in perfect equality with the images: she sees the ideas. and thinks the perceptions.”Dickinson poem is truly inspiring in simply the way she writes it. She shows in detail what she is thinking while still only saying a few words. Dickinson states on page 409, “Since then-’tis Centuries-and yet feels shorter than the day I first …show more content…
Thompson illustrates, “We distance ourselves from nature and proclaim our superiority over it by being able to comprehend it, Dickinson undermines this distance by having the brain—a material thing of nature—be that which does the comprehending.” The brain is like a sponge that can comprehend almost anything the world has to throw at it. Dickinson states, “The brain is deeper than the sea.” The brain has more depth than many people realise. Obviously, the third poem is “The Brain is Wider than the