An Analysis Of Emily Dickinson's We Grow Accustomed To The Dark

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Darkness essay Do you know what it feels like to be hopeless, and stuck in the dark with no answers? Emily Dickinson writes in Before I Got My Eye Put out how not only did she lose her ability to see, but the speaker in the poem explains how she misses her eyesight and how valuable a person’s eyesight is. In Dickinson’s similar poem We Grow Accustomed to the Dark she talks about the bright side of not having her sense of vision. In “Bbefore Ii got my eye put out” we can infer that the speaker misses her eyesight. In lines 1 and 2 the speaker explains, “before i got my eye put out / I liked as well to see.” In these lines she or he talks about how before she could no longer see she enjoyed the scenery. The speaker also talks about how

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