What if one day the world went black? The battle between the loss of sight and losing it, hit people in different ways. Some already know this feeling. Others can never imagine the feeling. Emily Dickinson wrote the poems “We grow accustom to the Dark” and “Before I got my eye put out”. The two poems focuses on sight and the loss of it. The power of sight is key in both poems. The first poem talks about how we can fall but pick ourselves up. The second shows the sadness of the loss of sight.
The thought of losing perception can be difficult but we learn to push through. The speaker in “We grow accustomed to the Dark” is losing their sight; their way of life. They are learning what their new life will be like without vison. Without the range
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of vison we stumble and get hurt. (Lines 5-6) Some might fall down and lose their ways but then with the help of others they find the way. (Lines 13-16) Jealousy leads to sadness, which leads to peaceful dreams.
The speaker in “Before I got my eye put out” is out of sorts over the loss of their eyesight. They are envious of other creature, because the creature, animals, can go out and see the world without having to look through a window. (Lines 18-21) When night comes the speaker is at ease with the world again. They dream of Mountains, forest. (Lines 14-17)
The speakers are at difference with the impairment of no longer having sight. In the first poem, the speaker is accepting over losing sight and knows that this will not stop them. They know that there will be ups and downs in learning how to do things again and they are okay with it. The speaker in “Before I got my eye put out” is nowhere near the accepting stage that the first speaker is in. They are jealous of every living thing that has the gift of sight. The only way for them to ever be able to see, is in their dreams and that gives them great peace.
Losing things that mean the most to you is always hard . people deal with loss in different way . That’s what makes us human . even though we act directly to things that have value to us , we all have the same feeling . Maybe just a different order of things. The two speakers in “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” show that people take loss in different ways . What we should learn from the two poems is we should grow and move on for loss but never completely loss it
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In the essay, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” Alice Walker writes about how she lost her eyesight in one eye due to a childhood accident. Alice communicates to the reader how, when losing an eye, she cared much less about the loss of her eyesight and more about how she appeared to others. In the story, Alice recalls different points where the accident affected her life. To her, the loss of her eye was not just a physical impediment, but a mental one as well. Once she had a surgery to remove the “glob of whitish scar tissue,” she felt like a new person, even though she still could not see. Alice says, “Now that I’ve raised my head,” and can stop holding herself back from being the greatest she can be. Just as Alice is affected by
Darkness is one of the main themes in this scene. She said, and brought in cloudy night. immediately. I will be able to do so. Spread thy curtains, love performing night', this.
Loss and isolation are easy, yet difficult to write about. They are easy because every human being can empathize with loneliness. If someone denies this, they are lying because loneliness is a common feeling, anyone can relate. It’s hard because we don’t discuss loneliness or loss publicly very often, and when we do, we forget about it quickly. These poems contrast each other by speaking of the different types of loneliness and isolation, distinguishing between the ones of loss, and isolation in a positive perspective.
In the first paragraph, the narrator also reveals his ignorance. He believes that all blind people are based on only what he has seen in movies, "My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they are led by seeing-eye dogs “(104). The narrator was surprised when he noticed Robert was not like this. The narrator is also surprised when Robert lights a cigarette. He believes blind people don’t smoke because “they couldn’t see the smoke they exhaled” (108). The husband starts to feel more comfortable after this. The three of them sit down for dinner and the husbands is impressed with the how Robert is able to locate his food, cut with a knife, and eat properly. This is where the narrator’s outlook starts to undergo change.
The limitations that were holding the narrator back were abolished through a process from which a blind man, in some sense, cured a physically healthy man. The blind man cured the narrator of these limitations, and opened him up to a whole world of new possibilities. Robert enabled the narrator to view the world in a whole new way, a way without the heavy weights of prejudice, jealousy, and insecurity holding him down. The blind man shows the narrator how to see.
In literature, blindness serves a general significant meaning of the absence of knowledge and insight. In life, physical blindness usually represents an inability or handicap, and those people afflicted with it are pitied. The act of being blind can set limitations on the human mind, thus causing their perception of reality to dramatically change in ways that can cause fear, personal insecurities, and eternal isolation. However, “Cathedral” utilizes blindness as an opportunity to expand outside those limits and exceed boundaries that can produce a compelling, internal change within an individual’s life. Those who have the ability of sight are able to examine and interpret their surroundings differently than those who are physically unable to see. Carver suggests an idea that sight and blindness offer two different perceptions of reality that can challenge and ultimately teach an individual to appreciate the powerful significance of truly seeing without seeing. Therefore, Raymond Carver passionately emphasizes a message that introduces blindness as not a setback, but a valuable gift that can offer a lesson of appreciation and acceptance toward viewing the world in a more open-minded perspective.
Not ever having “met or personally known anyone who was blind” (102) left the narrator at a loss as to how this man was going to behave or what they could do or talk about. He had read and heard things about the blind but Robert turned out to be none of these. The narrator thought “dark glasses were a must for the blind” (102) but Robert wore none. He had also heard blind men could not smoke because they could not see the smoke they exhaled “but this blind man smoked his cigarette down to the nubbin and then lit another one” (103).
In the beginning the narrator’s tone is derisive, as though he’s mocking Robert’s being blind. The narrator sees Robert as a nuisance, getting in the way of him and his wife, whose past relationships with Robert and other men seem to irritate the narrator. “My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed…A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to,” (Carver 1). The narrator is inexperienced
He keeps them closed, and the story ends brilliantly, “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything. “It’s really something.” These lines epitomize the most important concept of theme in this story. Without a doubt, a big part of this story is learning to empathize and relate to those whom you don’t know. Too often, we make judgments and presumptions about people. We don’t know what it’s like to be like a lot of the people we judge, and when it comes to things like blindness or deafness, especially, we have trouble understanding where these people are coming from. At the end however, the man is closer to this blind man than he may have been with any friend in his life before that. For a few moments, even if it’s less than a minute, the man is just like the blind man. His eyes are closed, he is drawing, he is feeling, but more important anything else, he is understanding. In that fleeting moment of intimate connection, he and the man are as one. Their souls, their collective experiences are joined just from the strength of this one little cathedral
On the surface, blindness gets treated just like any other major disability in our culture. However, the absence of the common ability to see can be exceptionally polarizing for both the blind and the sighted person involved. Eyesight is an exceedingly fundamental and uniting gift that has drastically shaped the way humans perceive the world and continually shape their every thought. Regrettably, this can sometimes characterize blind people as being somewhat alien to some people. They lack one of the most basic forms of common ground on which to relate. For some people, this can be an uncomfortable barrier, while others will immediately accept and cherish their company without a second thought. These are precisely the two contrasted reactions depicted in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”.
Literary Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous authors in American history, and a good amount of that can be attributed to her uniqueness in writing. In Emily Dickinson's poem 'Because I could not stop for Death,' she characterizes her overarching theme of Death differently than it is usually described through the poetic devices of irony, imagery, symbolism, and word choice. Emily Dickinson likes to use many different forms of poetic devices and Emily's use of irony in poems is one of the reasons they stand out in American poetry. In her poem 'Because I could not stop for Death,' she refers to 'Death' in a good way.
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.
Throughout Emily Dickinson’s poetry there is a reoccurring theme of death and immortality. The theme of death is further separated into two major categories including the curiosity Dickinson held of the process of dying and the feelings accompanied with it and the reaction to the death of a loved one. Two of Dickinson’s many poems that contain a theme of death include: “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” and “After great pain, a formal feeling comes.”
In the first stanza of the song, it is showing the speaker had feelings of remoteness while he was talking to his old friend ‘darkness’ for unspecified period of time. Talking with silence, where stillness has taken place, can be defined as solitude and loneliness. The reason behind the speaker resort to solitude and loneliness is because a vision was one that gives distress on him. In this case, if vision acts as a threat that oppresses and retreats instead of progressing and moving forwards to bright future, solace has to be a shelter which needs to be in place to defend one’s loneliness and feeling of isolation. “walked alone” in the second stanza, it seems that the speaker has a dream and shows an earnest craving to escape from lethargic ennui and weariness. No one would understand his feeling until the right time comes. (Simon, 1964, par. 1, 2)
The first feeling was when my eyes were closed was that how can i do everyday life activity but after an hour I was comfortable being blind. This made me think that if I was really blind and how could makes my life goes on easily by not worrying that I am not going to bump into obstacles. My first accomplishment was I successfully walk from Ms.Kate class to the toilet by not using my helper and able to use the toilet fluently. I was confident that be able to walk fluently. This made know the feeling of the person who is blind and if a see a blind person I will be happy to know that they can live their life by not have their eye but it able them to be a good listener to us. People that don’t really know how the feeling of being blind is but if you try like what I do. They think being blind is easy for blind people but it is hard for them at first that they know that they are blind. It is difficult for them to adapt from having eyes to not having eyes. They needs time to be comfortable without having their and some people treat them badly. After all, being blind for them is harder then when you have an eyes. Being blind for a day made me understand how hard to be blind to inspire me that to take cares of your eye and use my eye wisely.