Emily Dickenson

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A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure. When a writer tends to write their poems they usually tend to write about something that makes them feel some type of way. People think differently and that is what makes most of these poems so different from each other because no two writers could write about the same thing because everyone has something that contrasts them from another human being. The poems by Emily Dickenson all have some kind of unique attachment to them or something with very deep and or a different kind of meaning. These poems stick out to me in a personal way as well as they did with Dickenson. I came across them trying to figure out which poems I could write about and have some kind of personal connection with them so that I would be able to give you the most intense feedback on how Dickenson’s mind truly works. The …show more content…
When she says “The brain—is wider than the Sky—For—put them side by side (Lines 1-2)” is saying to me that no matter how many brains that you could put together and not even that could be enough power to be able to handle as much as a brain handles. The stanza form of this poem is three four-line stanzas metered iambically. It appears to have an ABCB rhyme scheme and the flow of this poem is very deep. I like the idea that Dickenson has in this poem because it makes the reader think about what kind of poet she is and why she is even comparing the brain to such things as the sky, the sea, and God or even its depth, width, and weight. The psychological attachment with this poem is that she refers the “brain” to a “mind” and makes us think that the mind is as wide as a sky or the mind is deeper than the sea and lastly the mind is just the weight of
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