Comparing The Ideas Of Sight And Darkness In Emily Dickinson's Poetry

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Have anyone ever told you not to lose sight of what you cannot see? Or that what someone see can be interpreted differently? Emily Dickinson introduced the idea of sight, and darkness in her poems during her lifetime. It all started in Boston when Emily saw an ophthalmologist about having aches in her eyes, including sensitivity to light. She later wrote two poems called “Before I got my eye put out” and “We grow accustomed to the Dark” that expressed the non-literal loss of sight, and becoming accustomed to darkness. In both poems, the speaker loses her sight, not just physically but mentally. I believe that Emily Dickinson’s poems about sight are suppose to be interpreted differently. When Emily refers to losing sight, she is saying that she lost a portion of knowledge, took her own sight for granted, and discovered the truth of being able to see through anything. …show more content…

It was viewed by the readers as she truly got her eye put out, but in reality she did not signify it that way. She meant that she lost a little bit of knowledge to the world she lives in. Emily was not as open-minded as she could of been if it was not the fact that she lost her eye.The poem stated that “As other creatures that have eyes- And know no other way”(Emily Dickinson, lines 3-4). She is saying that the creatures who have the ability to see are able to see, and know the knowledge that’s in front of them. In other words, she lost sight of what was in front of her while the creatures who have eyes did not.Correspondingly she began to take her sight for

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