Monday, November 21, 2011
Surgeons must be very careful
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit - Life!
Analysis:
In this short but yet meaningful poem, Dickinson uses figurative language to display how fragile life can be. I think by "Surgeons" Dickinson is representing people. She is suggesting to be careful when taking a knife, such as a choice . And by knife I think she is referring to a large decision, which is like a weapon to one's self. She then suggests that "underneath their fine incisions" meaning that the reflections of that decision and the consequences can be powerful, possibly even life risking. Which is her final statement in which she says "Stirs the Culprit-Life!". So all through life decisions and choices will appear but, if we're not careful we can choose something that will end our life, but not just by death. I think Dickinson knows how fragile life is and that we shouldn't take it for granted. In my opinion through this poem she is trying to make the statement, make every choice in life count.
The Bustle in a House
The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon Earth—
The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity.
Analysis:
This poem is overwhelming with imagery. In the first line you already picture a busy house, but then after reading line two you get a full picture of the sense of rush. Someone has passed and instead of this dark, slow mourning sense, Dickinson represents it as an up beat pandemonium. I think that Dickinson is supporting the fact that with death you're not always gonna get your way. Whether it be the timing or circumstances, you just have to make the best out of the situation and take care of what needs to be done. The second stanza, speaks the most to me. Through the second stanza I think Dickinson is trying to explain that when we lose someone we never stop loving them, though we might just put that love away deep inside our hearts. We don't want to use that particular love on or for anyone else. Dickinson concludes suggesting that we will reestablish that love in heaven one day for eternity.
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon Earth—
The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity.
Analysis:
This poem is overwhelming with imagery. In the first line you already picture a busy house, but then after reading line two you get a full picture of the sense of rush. Someone has passed and instead of this dark, slow mourning sense, Dickinson represents it as an up beat pandemonium. I think that Dickinson is supporting the fact that with death you're not always gonna get your way. Whether it be the timing or circumstances, you just have to make the best out of the situation and take care of what needs to be done. The second stanza, speaks the most to me. Through the second stanza I think Dickinson is trying to explain that when we lose someone we never stop loving them, though we might just put that love away deep inside our hearts. We don't want to use that particular love on or for anyone else. Dickinson concludes suggesting that we will reestablish that love in heaven one day for eternity.
My life close twice before its close
My life closed twice before its close-
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
Analysis:
In the poem "My life close twice before its close", Dickinson strongly suggests that she has come close to death or loss at some other point in her life. Through imagery she conveys that her life like a door has almost actually come to a close. Now this might not be relating to death, her closing could simply be losing something that was close to her. In the first line she is referring to her past. Then in the second line she states "It yet remains to see". Here I think she is saying that her life has yet to actually concluded in death, and that the third event will actually be the end of her life. The word "Immortality" stands out in this poem, it is the only word that is capitalized that isn't at the beginning of a line. This perhaps suggests that because Emily experienced two life ending situations but yet still lived she thinks of herself as being some what immortal. Death is huge and hopeless she describes as the two other times she experienced it. She then concludes the poem by suggesting that all we know of heaven is when we part with someone from death, but yet that same death is a representation of the agony and heartache of hell.
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
Analysis:
In the poem "My life close twice before its close", Dickinson strongly suggests that she has come close to death or loss at some other point in her life. Through imagery she conveys that her life like a door has almost actually come to a close. Now this might not be relating to death, her closing could simply be losing something that was close to her. In the first line she is referring to her past. Then in the second line she states "It yet remains to see". Here I think she is saying that her life has yet to actually concluded in death, and that the third event will actually be the end of her life. The word "Immortality" stands out in this poem, it is the only word that is capitalized that isn't at the beginning of a line. This perhaps suggests that because Emily experienced two life ending situations but yet still lived she thinks of herself as being some what immortal. Death is huge and hopeless she describes as the two other times she experienced it. She then concludes the poem by suggesting that all we know of heaven is when we part with someone from death, but yet that same death is a representation of the agony and heartache of hell.
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