Water Is Taught By Thirst By Emily Dickinson

Imagine an infinite universe, or a cell so minute that the human eye cannot see it; or even not existing at all. It's more difficult than it might seem. As humankind progressed so do our minds but just how far does that comprehension stretch. Emily Dickinson contemplates this in quite a few of her poems. She views human understanding as an infinite and miraculous opportunity; yet it is also so infantile and Immature. In her poems “The Brain is Wider Than The Sky” and “Water is Taught by Thirst” Dickinson ponders the full spectrum of human understanding.

In Dickinson’s distinguished poem “Water is taught by thirst” she conveys just how little we comprehend and have limited potential to learn. Dickinson expresses, “Water is taught by thirst. Land- by the oceans passed. Transport- by its battles told- Love, by Memorial Mold- Birds, By the snow,”(page 417 line 1-6). What Emily is trying to convey is that we can’t understand something until we have experienced it first hand. Our understanding can only reach so far. We learn through our life …show more content…
Dickinson proclaimed,“The Brain- is wider than the sky- for- put them side by side- the one the other will contain with ease- and you-beside-... The Brain is just the weight of God- for- heft them- pound for pound- and they will differ- if they do- as syllable and sound,”(pg 415 paragraphs 1 and 3). This poem is a celebration of human cognition to even think that we have the ability to comprehend something as immense as the sky. We have minds of infinite possibility, we can hold the sky in our minds and conceive it. the unbound comprehension that we posses. Syllables are just the construct of sound, so what she is trying to say that the only difference between god and our minds is that God is the final construction of our minds. The mind is therefore the seed of consciousness and can be God