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Emily Dickinson Before I Got My Eye Put Out
Both of Dickinson's poems are metaphorical. It is more than getting lost in the dark or losing your vision, it is more serious than that. The author loses something important in “Before I got my eye put out”.

In the poem “Before I Got My Eye Put Oout” the author talks about when she wants to do and how she live her life. in the first stanza, the author used the word creature. In my opinion this means that she is saying that human and others living things are creature because she is different from them. in the second stanza the author is saying that if she knew about losing her sight she would do thing she never done before. In the third stanza the author is saying that she would like to see. The author used “ the meadow mines”. She is saying

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