I Dropped So Low In My Jar By Emily Dickinson Essay

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To begin with, "It dropped so low-in my Regard" is one of the most mystifying and obscured poems Emily Dickinson has ever written. This free verse poem is about the disheartening realization that someone relatively close, in either spirit or in life, is not who you thought. A person would never have to know what exactly lost the regard of Dickinson; it is quite easy to substitute your own "it" for what once lost your own respect or love to feel akin to what Dickinson meant when she wrote this poem. Dickinson wrote this poem in the "I" perspective, which doesn't doesn't neccesarily mean it was about her, nonetheless, I'm considering this poem to be written about her personal eperience with disillusionment. By examining the choice of words that Dickinson uses to convey her feelings, I will demonstrate that beneath the seemingly obscurity of her words this poem is a story of anguish.
First, to understand this poem, the reader would have to first understand Emily. She lived a reclusive life mostly, speckled with brief abnormalities such as talking to guests through doors …show more content…

Dickinson could have purposely used an object like plated silverware that is impossible to break by falling to show how unquestionable her belief in this concept was, and how its final demise was unexpected and utterly crushing in its betrayal. In contrast, the lusterware could represent how believable the concept was, but it turned out to just be false and cheap. Anyone would be upset about valuing something that didn't deserve to be so valued-or held in such high regard.Expanding on scenario 1, lines 7-8 can be explained as Dickinson entertaining the thought that she could finally have someone who cared about her stick around in her life, and placed that thought very highly on a "silver shelf". In any case, the wares, or concepts, didn't live up to what they were advertised

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