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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1695.
There is a solitude of space
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Feb 8 2004
Comment 43 of 43, added on March 17th, 2008 at 3:45 PM.
Emily Dickinson is depicting the world within one's mind compared with that of reality. In the poem There is a Solitude of Space, she says that the sea, death and space are only solace for those which need others to thrive, such as society for a society consists of many individuals. A profounder sighting, one which would mean more to her, is one where she is the only person, within that interaction, one with itself, one might find the meaning of life, existence and learn self truth. The last line, finite infinity literally means defined endlessness, like that of the mind or the soul, for although one can call it by the english language it is still perpetual.
Lara Miller from United States
Comment 42 of 43, added on March 7th, 2008 at 11:34 AM.
There Is a solitude of space
This poem describes a inner loneliness that puts you in your own world
like Dickerson decribes as she says “compared with that profounder site that polar
privacy”. Futermore she depicts something that is always alone has no ending,
“a soul admitted to itself finite infinity”. People personally could relate to this
poem if their new to a school or area as Dickerson describes “there is solitude of
space”. within yourself .
kevin ingol from United States
Comment 41 of 43, added on March 7th, 2008 at 10:56 AM.
She first expresses her loss of loved ones and the emotional battle she has. I think that her loss was someone she really cared about, because of words she used. I know how it feels to loose someone I love, but to go through it twice would be devastating. She expresses how far death seems to her by saying, “If immortality unveil a third event to me…” She uses the word ‘hopeless’, which meant to me that she was struggling to accept what happened. She then uses the word ‘parting’, which shows how much she is torn by the death. By saying, “My life closed twice before its close”, she is expressing that she has died twice inside before her actually coming to her death.
Brittany Terrell from United States
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Emily Dickinson is depicting the world within one's mind compared with that of reality. In the poem There is a Solitude of Space, she says that the sea, death and space are only solace for those which need others to thrive, such as society for a society consists of many individuals. A profounder sighting, one which would mean more to her, is one where she is the only person, within that interaction, one with itself, one might find the meaning of life, existence and learn self truth. The last line, finite infinity literally means defined endlessness, like that of the mind or the soul, for although one can call it by the english language it is still perpetual.
Lara Miller from United States