Emily Dickinson's 'I DIED For Beauty'
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Mackenzie Jones
Ms. Rucker
English 11 CP
5 December 2014
Emily Dickinson’s “I DIED for beauty, but was scarce” Emily Dickinson's poem I DIED for beauty, but was scarce is about how a person tries to be perfect and strive for things such as "beauty" (6). When really all they need throughout life is "truth" (7). Spending your whole life searching for insufficient things like "beauty" are not important (6). Be happy in your body or "tomb" because in the end, living your life to the fullest is really all that matters (2). Also she may refer some things in a spiritual standpoint. Showing how all her family and loved ones where "in an adjoining room" meaning they where in different places; such as Heaven and Hell (4). She also refers to how, in the end nothing is left of you "Until the moss had reached our lips,/And covered up our names" (11-12). In the first stanza, Emily Dickinson states, “I DIED for beauty, but was scarce/Adjusted in the tomb, / When one who died for truth was lain/In an adjoining room” (lines 1-4). She may be trying to set the mood and tone for the poem. Saying how many girls, including her strive to have “beauty” (1). When they get too caught up in trying to be what everyone else wants of them, they go to …show more content…
Even though they may be in very different places(i.e. Heaven, Hell, Earth). As they "talk between the rooms," or their current human or spiritual locations, they may speak of the times they had as family or why things have occurred the way they did (10). They continued doing so until they could not anymore or "until the moss had reached our (their) lips" (11). The moss continued to grow, and "cover(ed)" what was left of them, their "tomb(s)" (2 and 12). "And covered up our names" showing that now, there is officially nothing left to show for who they were, until someone comes by and uncovers their story
Mackenzie Jones
Ms. Rucker
English 11 CP
5 December 2014
Emily Dickinson’s “I DIED for beauty, but was scarce” Emily Dickinson's poem I DIED for beauty, but was scarce is about how a person tries to be perfect and strive for things such as "beauty" (6). When really all they need throughout life is "truth" (7). Spending your whole life searching for insufficient things like "beauty" are not important (6). Be happy in your body or "tomb" because in the end, living your life to the fullest is really all that matters (2). Also she may refer some things in a spiritual standpoint. Showing how all her family and loved ones where "in an adjoining room" meaning they where in different places; such as Heaven and Hell (4). She also refers to how, in the end nothing is left of you "Until the moss had reached our lips,/And covered up our names" (11-12). In the first stanza, Emily Dickinson states, “I DIED for beauty, but was scarce/Adjusted in the tomb, / When one who died for truth was lain/In an adjoining room” (lines 1-4). She may be trying to set the mood and tone for the poem. Saying how many girls, including her strive to have “beauty” (1). When they get too caught up in trying to be what everyone else wants of them, they go to …show more content…
Even though they may be in very different places(i.e. Heaven, Hell, Earth). As they "talk between the rooms," or their current human or spiritual locations, they may speak of the times they had as family or why things have occurred the way they did (10). They continued doing so until they could not anymore or "until the moss had reached our (their) lips" (11). The moss continued to grow, and "cover(ed)" what was left of them, their "tomb(s)" (2 and 12). "And covered up our names" showing that now, there is officially nothing left to show for who they were, until someone comes by and uncovers their story