Before I Got My Eye Put Out Analysis

Can you see in the dark? What can you see in the dark? What can you not see? If you was in a dark house, will you be able to the exit before it’s late, or will you adjust to darkness? It’s hard to adjust to the dark unless you are used to living in it. 20/20 vision cannot help you this time, you either struggle or get use to darkness.

In the poem “We grow accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickinson, the author stated that our eyes we adjust to the dark if you get used to living in the dark. The author also says that your eyes have to get adjusted to what little light there is, about how sometimes it’s so dark that you can’t see anything, and how even the brave people have to feel their surroundings in the dark. The speaker wants us to see how hard it was to see in the dark. How they live life and how you have to get adjusted to the dark or you will not make it. The speaker comes to the conclusion that we can eventually see through Darkness as our surroundings adjust to them.

In the poem “Before I got my eye put out” by Emily Dickinson, the author stated things that she use to do before her eye got put out and the effects of having one eye. Basically, the speaker lost her sense of vision, her most valuable sense. The speaker says
In “we grow accustomed to the Dark” the concept of sight is figurative; people can eventually see through the dark. In “before I got my eye put out” the idea of sight is literal, being able to see again is overwhelming. If the speaker regained her sight, her heart “Would split”. General, the sight in “Before I got my eye put out” is sad because the speaker is recalling everything she saw and everything she did in a sad way. In “we grow accustomed to the Dark” the sight the speaker is using means that they cannot see because of how dark it is and how they would get adjust to little light there