Before I Got My Eye Put Out By Emily Dickinson Essay

Emily Dickinson’s view of sight in her poems are extremely deep and unclear. She makes the reader work to figure out the literal and metaphorical meanings of sight. The author’s meaning of sight is that when you're depressed or ignorant then you are lost. Most of the time our sense of sight is linked with discovery or finding something, but you can make a compelling case that sight may relate more to something being lost or feeling lost at times. That is my interpretation of her poems on sight. In the first poem “ We grow accustomed to the dark” one of her lines say “we grow accustomed to the dark.” This quote can support my thesis because her meaning of this line is that our eyes adjust to the darkness when light is taken away, like when you just turn on the lights after a long night sleep in the darkness. This relates to the section of my thesis where I said that your sight can make you feel lost at times.
And I don’t mean that in a bad way I mean that as though she had many messages within her poems. And they truly at times were hard to find. For example in her poem, “Before I got my eye put out” she states that, “ Before I got my eye put out/ I liked as well to see/ As other creatures , that have eyes/ And know no other way”. At first, the construction would indicate that the speaker used to enjoy seeing, but it is immediately clear that in fact she means used not to appreciate sight. That having lost her sight , she now finds sight to be much more than she once did. This relates to my theme in the section where I say that Emily Dickinson’s view of sight in her poems are very deep and