Grow Accustomed To The Dark And Before I Got My Eye Put Out
What Is True Darkness “We Grow Accustomed to The Dark” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” are two poems written by Emily Dickinson conveying the concept of sight. Although these two poems share a common theme, their way of comprehending ideas about sight are very different. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” is conveying a message to the audience of how the speaker is adapting to the darkness, while in “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” the speaker is trying to tell the audience how she would feel if she had gotten her vision back. In Dickinson's poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark,” it conveys a message of adapting to darkness because, when we “grow accustomed” it usually means getting used to or adjusting to something
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She enjoyed seeing just as much as other creatures enjoy seeing that know nothing else about the world. Creatures could represent other people and a sense of envy. The speaker “liked as well to see/As other creatures that have eyes”. This would specify that the speaker was once full of joy through sight, but it's clear that in fact she means that she never appreciated the sight she once had. If she were told today that she could “have the entire sky”, it would break her heart because it would leave her speechless. Everything in nature that she liked to look at, she would miss because her heart can feel the sight now. She recalls everything she did in life and is sorrowful. Consequently, the last line of the poem “Incautious of the Sun” recollects the earlier concept that sight is really more than what is seen by humans. Directly, the sun's brightness is something to be cautious of, but what the speaker is trying to convey is the sun stands for all of natures beauty. The speaker,who now sees with her soul, recognized that all of this beauty is too much and too
She enjoyed seeing just as much as other creatures enjoy seeing that know nothing else about the world. Creatures could represent other people and a sense of envy. The speaker “liked as well to see/As other creatures that have eyes”. This would specify that the speaker was once full of joy through sight, but it's clear that in fact she means that she never appreciated the sight she once had. If she were told today that she could “have the entire sky”, it would break her heart because it would leave her speechless. Everything in nature that she liked to look at, she would miss because her heart can feel the sight now. She recalls everything she did in life and is sorrowful. Consequently, the last line of the poem “Incautious of the Sun” recollects the earlier concept that sight is really more than what is seen by humans. Directly, the sun's brightness is something to be cautious of, but what the speaker is trying to convey is the sun stands for all of natures beauty. The speaker,who now sees with her soul, recognized that all of this beauty is too much and too