Emily Dickinson Wild Nights !/Were I With Thee Analysis
The Desire to Love and to Be Loved
Every person has the desire to meet their true love. Every person wants to find that one special person whom they believe is worthy of giving all of your love and wish for the same in return. Emily Dickinson wrote many poems that are depressing and dark, but one of her poems grasped my attention. The poem is called “Wild nights – Wild nights”. Love is a part of everyday life and is something that everyone encounters. Love can be exciting and fearful. Dickinson communicates this idea through her writing. She uses imagery, metaphors, and cautiously chooses her words.
Dickinson’s poem begins, “Wild nights – Wild nights! / Were I with thee” (1-2). She is speaking with a sense of longing. She wishes to revisit …show more content…
This is a metaphor for hopelessness. “Futile – the winds - / To a Heart in port – “. She is communicating her frustration that the “futile winds” are preventing her from meeting her love, she is stuck,“Heart in port”. Once again, she is stressing the word “Heart” by capitalizing it showing that her “thee” holds a special place in her heart. However, as you continue to read, it seems her frustration has made her give up the hope she had of being reunited with her love. She begins the last two lines of the second stanza with the word “Done”. She states that she is, “Done with the Compass- / Done with the Chart!” (7-8) This seems to be her breaking …show more content…
Dickinson’s hope to be reunited with “thee” returns. She writes with an erotic and watery imagery. Lines 9-10 read, “Rowing in Eden- / Ah- the Sea!” Eden could be a metaphor of someplace that is beautiful. Or Eden could represent the height of pleasure that is a part of love making. “Ah!” is an exclamation where one feels satisfied or at peace. The “Sea” is a metaphor for love. Love, like the sea, has it highs and lows. Ending the poem are the words, “Might I but moor – tonight- / In thee” (11-12). A moor is a fast, for an example a boat, by securing it by a rope to an anchor. This could mean the writer having the security of “thee”. She wished to embraced by her lover, to be “moored” in thee. The speaker just yearns to be with her
Every person has the desire to meet their true love. Every person wants to find that one special person whom they believe is worthy of giving all of your love and wish for the same in return. Emily Dickinson wrote many poems that are depressing and dark, but one of her poems grasped my attention. The poem is called “Wild nights – Wild nights”. Love is a part of everyday life and is something that everyone encounters. Love can be exciting and fearful. Dickinson communicates this idea through her writing. She uses imagery, metaphors, and cautiously chooses her words.
Dickinson’s poem begins, “Wild nights – Wild nights! / Were I with thee” (1-2). She is speaking with a sense of longing. She wishes to revisit …show more content…
This is a metaphor for hopelessness. “Futile – the winds - / To a Heart in port – “. She is communicating her frustration that the “futile winds” are preventing her from meeting her love, she is stuck,“Heart in port”. Once again, she is stressing the word “Heart” by capitalizing it showing that her “thee” holds a special place in her heart. However, as you continue to read, it seems her frustration has made her give up the hope she had of being reunited with her love. She begins the last two lines of the second stanza with the word “Done”. She states that she is, “Done with the Compass- / Done with the Chart!” (7-8) This seems to be her breaking …show more content…
Dickinson’s hope to be reunited with “thee” returns. She writes with an erotic and watery imagery. Lines 9-10 read, “Rowing in Eden- / Ah- the Sea!” Eden could be a metaphor of someplace that is beautiful. Or Eden could represent the height of pleasure that is a part of love making. “Ah!” is an exclamation where one feels satisfied or at peace. The “Sea” is a metaphor for love. Love, like the sea, has it highs and lows. Ending the poem are the words, “Might I but moor – tonight- / In thee” (11-12). A moor is a fast, for an example a boat, by securing it by a rope to an anchor. This could mean the writer having the security of “thee”. She wished to embraced by her lover, to be “moored” in thee. The speaker just yearns to be with her