Emily Dickinson's Before I Got My Eye-Put Out

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Emily Dickinson had many metaphoric phrases in her poetry that gets readers to search for the true meaning.The two poems that involve searching for the true meaning are “ We grow accustomed to the dark” and “Before I got my eye put out”. Many people have heavy debates over what is the true meaning. The poem “Before I got my eye put out” has a lot of metaphors in it. One interpretation of the poem is that the speaker loved their surroundings and misses being able to see what they could once see. This is shown in the poem when the author wrote “Before I got my eye put out –
I liked as well to see...with just my soul Opon the window pane…” The speaker liked what they saw when they could and now that they can’t they