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The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky By Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson engages in profoundly unique and distinctive perspectives in regards of human beings inside society, something which she expresses deeply and thoroughly within her poems. In her judgement, she believes that individuals can become very ambitious and conformist, which can keep them from achieving the full potential humans have. As she formulates in “The Brain is wider than the sky”, our brain, along with our imagination and creativity, has no specific boundaries regarding depth, length, and weight. Emily acknowledges that human potential has a capacity “wider than the sky”, “deeper than the sea”, and “just the weight of God”. Along with these comparisons in “The Brain is wider than the sky”, Dickinson relates the brain’s supremacy to be so boundless it can “put a Current back”, as she details in “The Brain, within its Groove”. …show more content…

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