Sunday, August 18, 2019
Emily Dickinson :: essays research papers
Delve into a world constructed from images and thoughts streaming along at the speed of light. Watch them flow as they for buildings, people, animals and objects. Streaming along at the speed of light, one can only catch glimpses of what is truly concealed within by the river. As it travels through the mind, it touches everything. Forming, altering, defining, nothing is truly what it seems or what we interpret it to be. Hidden within the stream lies powers that are truly incomprehensible to the human mind. In ââ¬Å"Your thoughts donââ¬â¢t have wordsâ⬠¦Ã¢â¬ Emily Dickinson intertwines this realization within the constructs of her poem. Dickinson explores the complex world of the mind through her poem. She delves into the realization that what we know and what flows though are minds are truly two different things and that these two things are as different as night and day. In the first two lines ââ¬Å"Your thoughts donââ¬â¢t have words every day, they come a single timeâ⬠can be best put into an analogy. Oneââ¬â¢s thoughts come streaming into oneââ¬â¢s mind, flooding and saturating ones thoughts. Because oneââ¬â¢s thoughts come pouring in without any restraint, the mind must maintain itself in the only way it seems possible. Thus, our thoughts speak with words, sentences, images that we can comprehend and understand. The next two lines, lines three and four, further solidify this interpretation. ââ¬Å"Like signal esoteric sips of the Communion Wineâ⬠¦Ã¢â¬ communicates the idea that what we are able to think and comprehend is only a fraction what truly flows through our minds. As fast as we can interpret our thoughts, thousands more stream by without us even realizing it. As the lines state, the thoughts that we interpret are as occasional as when we sip the Communion Wine, coming to us only once every so often because we are always preoccupied with so many other things. However, despite the fact that we only realize a tiny fraction of the thoughts that comes to us, they are truly as precious as the Communion Wine. Lines five and six bring the realization that all that is our thoughts are just the ideas and concepts that we are familiar with. Thus, making it easier for our minds to interpret the concepts with greater ease. ââ¬Å"Which while you taste so native seems so easy so to beâ⬠¦Ã¢â¬ reiterates this concept. The lines are saying that the thoughts that we interpret are familiar, or native, to us and that is why they are so easy to comprehend.
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