We Grow Accustomed To The Dark
How would you feel if you spent your whole life always in the dark and never got a chance to see the true light? Would you appreciate it more? Well, that is exactly how Emily Dickinson lived her life wondering, and dreaming about this “LIGHT” and “DARKNESS”. In her two poems “ Before I got my eye put out” and “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark,” you get a glimpse of exactly how she pictured this “light and “darkness”, it’s not just a physical appearance but metaphorically too. Dickinson seemed to find a way to incorporate her feelings and thoughts into two magnificent poems.
In the poem “Before I got my eye put out,” Dickinson, of course talks about not being able to see, but it’s way deeper than the literal meaning of being blinded. This poem has very manifold meanings, that leaves you wondering about Dickinson's character. For example, in the very first stanza she says “Before I got my eye put out/ I liked as well to see/ As other creatures, that have …show more content…
eyes/ And know no other way –”. Here Dickinson seems to be claiming that she liked to see just like everyone else, but that idea is antithetical the real meaning is that now she sees the pure beauty in seeing. Unlike others who are so used to seeing and don’t know any other way, these people won’t ever get a glimpse of the pulchritude that she does.
In the poem “We grow accustomed to the dark”, also by Emily Dickinson, is a poem about being in darkness and sometimes struggling to get through when you are not able to see the path ahead of you, you’ll stumble a little until your eyes adjust to being in that form of darkness.
Then Dickinson proceeds to say that sometimes it takes a little more time to habituate your vision, and you might run into a tree but you will eventually make it to the road. We all know that Dickinson always had a way of using her words, and that this poem is not just about physical darkness. The quote, “Either the Darkness alters – Or something in the sight Adjusts itself to Midnight –And Life steps almost straight.”, explains of course that when in the dark at first you can’t see but when you get use to it…, but we know that metaphorically this darkness could be a problem, a nightmare, a bad day, or even someone you dislike. She uses both throughout the story, and this shows that darkness is more than something that’s
corporeal.
In both the poems the lost of sight and darkness is well thought out, and mentioned thoroughly throughout each. But in each poem they are meant in different ways,making Dickinson’s thoughts on “darkness” become many point of views. In “Before I got my eye put out”, the tone was slow and calm being that she has lost her sight, but then it switches into a growing realization that what has happen to her is not a horrible thing, she had a ardent tone. Then you have “We grow accustomed to the dark”, tone varies on the reader’s mood. In “Before I got my eye put out”, Dickinson’s loss of sight seemed to be good and she learns to appreciate it more. Were as in the other poem her loss of sight was questionable in the beginning but she learns to grapple her loss. Both poems learned that having this “darkness” should not stop you from appreciating the goods of life.
In both “Before I got my eye put out”, and “We grow accustomed to the dark” talk about “darkness” and “light”. You learned that sometimes darkness is not always a literal concept, yet metaphorically too and the same goes with light. Sometimes you have to be able to live through the darkness to acknowledge the true light.
In the poem “Before I got my eye put out,” Dickinson, of course talks about not being able to see, but it’s way deeper than the literal meaning of being blinded. This poem has very manifold meanings, that leaves you wondering about Dickinson's character. For example, in the very first stanza she says “Before I got my eye put out/ I liked as well to see/ As other creatures, that have …show more content…
eyes/ And know no other way –”. Here Dickinson seems to be claiming that she liked to see just like everyone else, but that idea is antithetical the real meaning is that now she sees the pure beauty in seeing. Unlike others who are so used to seeing and don’t know any other way, these people won’t ever get a glimpse of the pulchritude that she does.
In the poem “We grow accustomed to the dark”, also by Emily Dickinson, is a poem about being in darkness and sometimes struggling to get through when you are not able to see the path ahead of you, you’ll stumble a little until your eyes adjust to being in that form of darkness.
Then Dickinson proceeds to say that sometimes it takes a little more time to habituate your vision, and you might run into a tree but you will eventually make it to the road. We all know that Dickinson always had a way of using her words, and that this poem is not just about physical darkness. The quote, “Either the Darkness alters – Or something in the sight Adjusts itself to Midnight –And Life steps almost straight.”, explains of course that when in the dark at first you can’t see but when you get use to it…, but we know that metaphorically this darkness could be a problem, a nightmare, a bad day, or even someone you dislike. She uses both throughout the story, and this shows that darkness is more than something that’s
corporeal.
In both the poems the lost of sight and darkness is well thought out, and mentioned thoroughly throughout each. But in each poem they are meant in different ways,making Dickinson’s thoughts on “darkness” become many point of views. In “Before I got my eye put out”, the tone was slow and calm being that she has lost her sight, but then it switches into a growing realization that what has happen to her is not a horrible thing, she had a ardent tone. Then you have “We grow accustomed to the dark”, tone varies on the reader’s mood. In “Before I got my eye put out”, Dickinson’s loss of sight seemed to be good and she learns to appreciate it more. Were as in the other poem her loss of sight was questionable in the beginning but she learns to grapple her loss. Both poems learned that having this “darkness” should not stop you from appreciating the goods of life.
In both “Before I got my eye put out”, and “We grow accustomed to the dark” talk about “darkness” and “light”. You learned that sometimes darkness is not always a literal concept, yet metaphorically too and the same goes with light. Sometimes you have to be able to live through the darkness to acknowledge the true light.