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'Before I Got My Eye Put Out'

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In both of Emily Dickinson’s poem there is different meaning to the same loss. In “Before I got my eye put out” the poem’s tone and the mood changes. In the beginning of the poem, Dickinson uses slow tone then in the middle of the poem the tone rises and the poem ends with slow tone again. In the poem, the narrator loses her eyesight. Her heart aches as she thinks about not being able to see as the quote shows “For mine - I tell you that my heart would split, for size of me”. In this poem it talks about losing eye sight. In “We grow accustomed to the dark” the poem's tone and the mood changes throughout the poem. In the beginning of the poem the tone is soft and the mood is sad until in the end of the middle poem the tone and mood changes to
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