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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 632.
The Brain -- is wider than the Sky --
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Jun 24 2000
Comment 76 of 76, added on June 25th, 2008 at 2:17 PM.
How can the brain not exist and be wider than the sky and deeper than the ocean??
Mike Hunt from United States
Comment 75 of 76, added on March 7th, 2008 at 11:42 AM.
In the poem The Brain is Wider than the Sky, Emily Dickinson states that there is
no such thing as the brain. She wrote about how “The brain is wider than the
sky”, and how “The brain is deeper than the ocean”. She says that the brain is
wider than the sky because the brain is open to things and compared to the sky the
brain is bigger. She also says that the brain is deeper than the ocean, that’s
because the brain can absorb and can be open to new things and the brain has no
limits. Knowing that the sky and the ocean are the two biggest things on our
atmosphere she says that he brain is wider and deeper. I think that she means that
no matter what, your brain is the biggest thing in the world and that the brain has
no limits because is full of knowledge.
Estefania Rosas from United States
Comment 74 of 76, added on March 7th, 2008 at 11:35 AM.
In this poem Emily Dickinson is trying to show that the sky has no limitations and compares that to your brain, being that there are no limitations to what you can learn. As she describes “For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain” they are just as equal. “The one the other will absorb -- As Sponges -- Buckets -- do –” She is saying you can absorb just as much as a sponge can. She also describes how you can hold up to however much information you want, comparing that to the sea. Emily expresses that the brain is a gift from God that we should use to our full advantage we should not make a limit on what we are able to learn. As she describes this she says that the brain is the weight of God, the weight is used to symbolize the gift, and it should be used to your full advantage. She also uses the sky to symbolize how the sky has to beginning nor ending, so your mind should not either. This poem to me says a lot, because she is trying to get across that we should use the gift that God provided for us, and make no limitations to which we use it.
tasha
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How can the brain not exist and be wider than the sky and deeper than the ocean??
Mike Hunt from United States