I Ll Tell You How The Sun Rose

Having the concepts of bearing on happiness and morality, one must realize that their life matters, during the time that they are on the stage of death. They need to be aware of the difficulties of perceiving the world around them. The poem, “I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose,” by Emily Dickinson, portrays the sunrise and sunset in a very descriptive and meaningful way by associating them with lives. In the poem, Dickinson uses imagery, symbolism, and simile to reveal her argument, which is the circle of life and death.

Every morning, the sun’s rays beams slowly while unraveling the ocean and land. The sun causes all of nature to wake up and colors to be seen. In the second stanza of the poem, the speaker was describing the sunrise, and she said, “The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun” (Dickinson 28). She mentioned that the hills were showing and that bobolinks started singing. The readers are using their sense of

They are not aware of the suffering and pain around them. In the third stanza, the speaker was mentioning about how the sun sets, and she said, “There seemed a purple stile While little yellow boys and girls Were climbing all the while Till when they reached the other side..” (Dickinson 28). She considered that the little yellow boys and girls were playing/climbing on the purple stile. This quote symbolizes innocence. The children weren’t knowledgeable of their surroundings and their fate, therefore they kept on playing. Their innocence is a part of going through the process of living. What they didn’t realize is that climbing over the stile, exemplifies that they are growing up into the life of conformity and boundaries. When they were climbing the “stile,” they are basically crossing the border of losing their innocence. The changes of their development will affect their future lives. There is another supporting device that Dickinson uses, and it is