Can you find light when all you have is darkness ? Emily Dickinson wrote the two poems “We grow accustomed to the Dark & Before i got my eye put out” these poems are about not having sight, but not having sight has a deeper meaning than just not being able to see. Losing sight can mean being lost with no direction, and that’s the idea you get with these two poems. She said in the poem “Before i got my eye put out “The Meadows - mine - The Mountains - mine”.They were no longer hers because of the darkness . Lots of time people take advantage of having a clear path and having the direction that others don't have, she was lost nothing remained the same, it was gone just like that and when you find yourself
empty and lost like that there's nowhere else to turn. Emily Dickinson did a really good job explaining what it's like being in the dark and the poem makes you realize how selfish people are and how they take advantage of the light they have , being lost with no direction is it's deep because when you lose your sight as Dickinson said in the poem its really like just losing your soul. Dickinson's other poem “We grow accustomed to the dark” What she means by growing accustomed to the dark is that we are so use to something being a certain way when it is time to change we have a hard time adapting more so because we want it how it was or it could be the fact that we are just not willing to open up and adapt to the change that is approaching. The poem “ We grow accustomed to the Dark” is a really good poem because it's realistic and it tells you that we grow so accustomed to something we won’t want it to change, us as individuals sometimes aren't willing to see if the grass is greener on the other side maybe because we like what we have or maybe that we won't like what's on the other side and have the fear of not being able to go back to what we had before but taking a chance is better than living with a what if , if you're being honest with yourself because you’ll carry that with you. Being afraid of change is a setback for yourself and that's what that poem was really trying to get to . Growing accustomed to the dark also teaches you to be afraid of the light.