Emily Dickinson Metaphors

In “We grow accustomed to the Dark,” Emily Dickinson uses eloquent metaphors, obsidian imagery, and repetitious structure to explain how when you “learn to see” the bad events in your life can get a little better. After reading the whole poem, the eloquent metaphors used by Emily Dickinson can be better brought to light in order to help explain her point of view. Throughout this poem, she uses dark as a metaphor which explains why it is always capitalized. Once the importance is recognized, a reader can put all of the pieces together behind the true meaning of this piece of work. For example when she says, “A Moment – We Uncertain step For newness of the night,” she first is introducing the thought into the reader's mind about emotional changes