Before I Got My Eye Put Out

Sight is a thing that one sees or that can be seen. Emily Dickinson had a different perspective of sight since she struggled with it in her mid 30’s. In “We grow accustomed to the dark” Dickinson’s perspective on sight was that the bravest people wander out into the dark and may stumble on the way but as their sight adjusts, life seems to go straight. In Dickinson’s “Before i got my eye put out” her perspective on sight is quite peculiar. In this poem it starts off by telling reader how much her sight is missed and what she would do if she still had it. Then it continues to go on about how it can be dangerous and she prefers having no sight.

In Emily Dickinson’s poem “We grow accustomed to the dark she starts to walk us through the darkness. She explains to us that when “light is put away” we adjust to it which we could compare to different events in our life. As we adjust to the “darkness” we start to leave the light behind, and the absence of light can make us a little shaky because we’re not used to it. Although, once we’re used to the “dark” the road is clear ahead of us. The darkness grows larger in our minds that even the moon is not visible. But some people “feel around “ and learn to adjust to the darkness not concerned about
In the first Stanza, she realizes that she took her sight for granted and she never realized how much she liked it. She continues to explain that she would’ve used her sight more and she loved it as much as any other of her body parts. She starts to list out some of the things she would've explored if she still had her sight. It’s confusing to her on whether she wants to embrace the fantasy or accept reality. She wraps up the poem on the idea that she doesn’t need sight to experience the