Rock The Grass Annotation

The human race takes for granted the beauty and life Earth provides. In Emily Dickinson's "The wind begun to rock the grass" it is evident that Dickinson is trying to emit that people tend to shelter themselves from harsh realities; realities they are too selfish to acknowledge. Humans corrupts the environment and society in the same way they corrupt their brains with the idea that their actions have no ramifications.

Dickinson conveys the message of her poem through the utilization of sensory language such as similes and imagery, as well as consistent symbolism and personification. Dickinson's word choice-- "threatening", "menace", "livid"-- works to amplify the intensity of the scene while making the aggressive tone of the narrator evident. A hostile mood is created immediately as the personified imagery, "The Wind begun to rock the Grass With threatening Tunes and low--" begins the poem. This mood does not falter throughout the work of literature as, "But overlooked my Father's House—Just quartering a tree--" shows that destruction was present until the end. The theme of destruction is intended to describe the level of effect possible when humanity neglects its

In stanza four and five, "And then as if the Hands That held the Dams had parted hold, The Waters Wrecked the Sky," she alludes to the biblical story of Noah's Ark, and how God created a flood to wipe out Earth and start anew as humans had taken for granted what he had provided and become depraved, and greedy. The animals sought safety, "Birds put up the Bars to Nests—The Cattle fled to Barns--" symbolizing the animals spared on Noah's ark, while establishing a belief in humanity's ability to start over by saving a main food