Emily Dickinson's Poem 'Before I Got My Eye Put Out'
Essay on Dickinson's poem
Have you ever got your eye put out ? Not literally or physically but mentally. Well Emily Dickinson has before, in both of her poems she talks about site. She isn't talking about her physically going blind or that all she can see is dark, she is talking about how people show they true colors which pokes her eye out and makes her see that person in a different way. She is not speaking in literal terms in either of these poems. You have to read it in a different perspective. In one of her poems “Before I got my eye put out” she says “Before I got my eye put out, I liked as well to see, As other creatures, that have eyes, And know no other way” which is her saying that she liked to see how everyone else in the world
Have you ever got your eye put out ? Not literally or physically but mentally. Well Emily Dickinson has before, in both of her poems she talks about site. She isn't talking about her physically going blind or that all she can see is dark, she is talking about how people show they true colors which pokes her eye out and makes her see that person in a different way. She is not speaking in literal terms in either of these poems. You have to read it in a different perspective. In one of her poems “Before I got my eye put out” she says “Before I got my eye put out, I liked as well to see, As other creatures, that have eyes, And know no other way” which is her saying that she liked to see how everyone else in the world