Emily Dickinson Metaphors

In “We grow accustomed to the Dark,” Emily Dickinson uses eloquent metaphors, obsidian imagery, and repetitious structure to explain how when you “learn to see” the bad events in your life can get a little better. After reading the whole poem, the eloquent metaphors used by Emily Dickinson can be better brought to light in order to help explain her point of view. Throughout this poem, she uses dark as a metaphor which explains why it is always capitalized. Once the importance is recognized, a reader can put all of the pieces together behind the true meaning of this piece of work. For example when she says, “A Moment – We Uncertain step For newness of the night,” she first is introducing the thought into the reader's mind about emotional changes
in a person's life. This specific line is explaining how most people aren't accustomed to tragedy or even sadness of a greater level. Emily Dickinson is saying that the choices you make after a tragic event or experience might be a choice you’ve never had to make before, or maybe it’s a decision you know you want to make but you just aren’t positive it's the right one. In either circumstance, you’re making the choice because you want to move on and not be trapped in that sad state. In the following lines after that she goes onto say, “Then – fit our Vision to the Dark –And meet the Road – erect.” By following the cluelessness of the last lines with these lines she's showing us how no one can know for sure what will come in the future. How we come to terms with certain things is up to us and we just need to be confident in ourselves in order for it to get better. The darkness she's talking about can only go away when we learn to accept the fact that terrible things are going to happen and we have to learn that it will get easier. Using metaphors throughout helps Emily dickinson to convey that we need to use the strength in ourselves to get over the emotions brought on by the “dark” events in our lives.