Comparing Two Essays By Emily Dickinson And We Alone By Alice Walker

Could you be Rich without cash? Yes, you could. In " It's all I need to bring today" by Emily Dickinson and " We Alone" by Alice Walker, both teller share theme, feeling, and repetition. Though both were expressing a thought or idea, both told a different story. In both poems, thoughts and ideas were expressed in both different and similar ways. Although the authors develop their themes differently, they both use feeling, images, and repetition in their work to express their message.

In the Poem “It’s all I have to bring today-” Emily Dickinson, uses repetition to develop her theme that everyday things can be just as valuable as things we value. She repeats the term “This and my heart,” I think this explains that the speaker is bringing everything she has I believe that the writer. The theme is common things should be considered valuable. During
She repeats the words gold and chain. I think that the reason is that, if we value gold more that things like love and friendship than we could become prisoners to that thing, or maybe lose what really counts. During the poem it is describing things that we don’t really value such as shells, feathers, and sea shaped stones. The poet expresses the danger something such as this. In this poem, I felt like a woman was thinking and imagining. The tone was curiosity. The two poems expressed different ideas in different tones and moods. In the story “It’s all I have to bring today-” the idea is to try hard and give all you got. In “We Alone” the idea is that we should “value the things that are plentiful as much as what is scarce.” Though the pictures that went in my head are very different compared to each other. For “It’s all I have to bring to day-” I imagined a field and meadows,” for “We Alone,” I imagined a sea shore and shells lying along the beach.” Both do still tell a good lesson to