Ones Midas Touched

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Midas was a character in a Greek mythology story; everything he touched turned into gold. He had materialistic happiness. Jesus begs for help and wants to cheat his life on Earth he doesn’t have happiness. Burmah, India a place of paradise where birds are everywhere a setting of satisfaction. Jason was to find the Golden Fleece, but if she were, Jason she would find something better happiness. The theme of the poem is happiness, and real happiness not materialistic. Emily Dickinson's intent for "One of the ones Midas touched" is for happiness, and think people shouldn’t waste it on materialistic items. The title shows the primary theme of the poem by being the first line of "One of the ones Midas touched." The element it accentuates is being happy over worldly things. …show more content…

There is a pattern of every stanza is one sentence. The effect this makes is, Dickinson, ends her thought on that subject matter, and her next idea begins in the next verse of "One of the ones Midas touched." The rhyme scheme of this poem is “ABBBCDEDFGBGHIJKLMNMOPQRSTS." The effect it creates is a small singsongy type of poem that doesn’t rhyme all the way throughout, but there is some rhyme there. Dickinson breaks the lines in the middle of the stanzas when she might be starting a new thought on that subject. There are no sound devices in this poem. The speaker is the author, Emily Dickinson. The audience is whoever is listening. Emily was probably in her thirties, and her values are happiness. She is unhappy and wants to go on a journey to find her happiness. Emily doesn’t understand why people waste their happiness on worldly items. There are no repeated words in the poem. There are no ways in which the words are laid out in unconventional ways. The words are concrete, and there are no cliched or inappropriate words in this

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