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Poet: Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson Art)
Poem: 185.
"Faith" is a fine invention
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Comment 23 of 23, added on November 4th, 2009 at 5:50 PM.
I think that Dickinson is trying to tell us that faith is fine when everything seems to be all right. This might be the reason why she emphasizes the word "see"; she was probably trying to say that people tend to have more faith when things are happening as expected. She emphasizes the word "microscope" (the microscope might represent science) to explain why science helps people to better deal with emergencies than faith.
Marcos Gomez from United States
Comment 22 of 23, added on September 7th, 2009 at 7:11 PM.
"Faith" is a fine invention- But faith is meant for when we cant see, when we cant see we need faith in the unseen so to aspire to continue-
"Faith" is a fine invention- There is little real faith, so necessity is the mother of invention,
like other man made inventions are good in an emergency- But,
We need to see it to believe it! --
It seems as thought this is a statement of the spiritual condition of modern society.
Glen from United States
Comment 21 of 23, added on January 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 PM.
The very first line of this poem is paradoxical. What is faith? It is belief, trust, religion where invention means scientific creation. How can you invent faith when you can not even see it. So it is a contradiction. The main idea of this poem may be the contrast between religion and science. Faith for God, religion is present in every human. But what happens when an emergency comes? Religion gives you faith and thus makes you hopeful, that's true. But science helps you handle the emergency situation more than faith does. This is my point of view about this poem.
Momena Afroz Ahmed from Bangladesh
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I think that Dickinson is trying to tell us that faith is fine when everything seems to be all right. This might be the reason why she emphasizes the word "see"; she was probably trying to say that people tend to have more faith when things are happening as expected. She emphasizes the word "microscope" (the microscope might represent science) to explain why science helps people to better deal with emergencies than faith.
Marcos Gomez from United States