Before I Got My Eye Put Out

Have you ever felt you jumped in the dark with not even a little bit of source of light and once you got used to it you could kind of catch a picture of what is around you and yourself? Well, the author, Emily Dickinson, had felt that grudge when she started losing her eyesight. Emily wrote these two poems called, “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” and shared her metaphorical feelings about her difficulties of not being able to see very well. In the two poems, the metaphorical meaning of sight is that even though the speaker might have been living in the light all their life, once a person felt what it is like to be in the dark is when they find brighter light. In other words, once they have felt grief, depression, or fear is when they keep that experience and use it to protect themselves against other obstacles that come in their way and become a braver and tougher person. The next two paragraphs will present the two poems that will support the thesis. In Emily Dickinson’s first poem, “We Grow

But Emily also writes that it is better to be safe and not be able to see instead of being brave and take risk for more danger. In the poem, the poet is sitting indoors looking at other kids playing in the sun and says, “So safer - guess - with just my soul upon the window pane where the other creatures put their eyes - incautious - of the Sun.” This quote from the poem states that it is better to keep safety even though eyesight is needed. As written in the thesis, the speaker of this poem protects her of himself by staying inside with safety on the side. Also this poem is relatively the opposite from the first poem, “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” because this poem talks about being safe away from being in the dark and the other poem talks about being free and being brave to face the