Metaphorical Meaning Of Sight In Emily Dickinson's Poems

The Metaphorical Meaning of Sight Have you ever lost your sight and was in complete darkness? Both of Emily Dickinson’s poems involves losing your sight but each poems takes the problem in many different perspectives.While losing your sight is the main topic of these poems, the poems are not just about losing your physical sight, but also a metaphor in these poems. What the speaker is really saying about sight is that sight is a metaphor of hopes, dreams, life, and goals and when you lose your sight, you will start to see darkness.In these poems, darkness is also a metaphor for depression, loneliness, and lost.

In Emily Dickinson’s poem “We grow accustomed to the Dark” supports this thesis because the speaker in this poem loses their sight

The speaker in this poem cares for their eyesight but once they lost their precious sight, they do not appreciate the new sight that was give to them and they miss their old sight and the things they loved to see. “The Motion of Dipping Birds - The Morning’s Amber Road - For mines - to look at when I liked, The news would strike me dead” (Dickinson). The cited text supports the thesis by giving the readers the knowledge that the speaker does not like the changes that happen to their eyesight and the speaker miss seeing things that they like. “Before I got my eye put out” shows the speaker losing their eyesight and regretting seeing things in a new perspective. Although the new perspective will help the speaker see more thing that they never imagined before because the old sight that the speaker had limited them to only seeing what they wanted to

In “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”, the speaker takes the lost in sight as an advantage not as a disadvantage. In “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” the speaker loses their sight but instead of taking it as an advantage; the speaker does not appreciate the new sight that was given to them. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” states that the brave does not hesitate to venture out in the unknown; even though they will have problems in their way. They would not let the problems stagger them in reaching their new sight and they will learn from their problems. “Before I Got My Eye Put Out”, states that the speaker would miss seeing the way that they uses to see in the past, but the speaker accepts the new sight that was given to them. Both of the poems by Emily Dickinson, uses sight and darkness as a metaphor and both of the poems let you interpret the meaning of sight and darkness in different ways. The poems both have similarities and differences but the similarities and differences are determined by the way the reader interprets the