Emily Dickinson's The Brain

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Emily Dickinson’s The Brain-- is wider than the Sky describes how the brain is the most amazing object in the universe. Emily Dickinson greatly displays her idea that the brain is the endless throughout the poem. On the fifth line, she stated, “The Brain is deeper than the sea” (Dickinson 5). She is trying to tell the audience that just like the ocean, the brain never ends and much of it is undiscovered. We as humans do not know exactly how brain functions just like how we know little about the ocean, especially when referring to the deeper we go. Dickinson also wants to she how she believes the brain can do anything. While comparing the brain to the sky, she says, “The one the other will contain” (Dickinson 3). The sky may technically be

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