The Brain — is wider than the Sky —
For — put them side by side —
The one the other will contain
With ease — and You — beside —
The Brain is deeper than the sea —
For — hold them — Blue to Blue —
The one the other will absorb —
As Sponges — Buckets — do —
The Brain is just the weight of God —
For — Heft them — Pound for Pound —
And they will differ — if they do —
As Syllable from Sound —
In the poem The Brain is wider than the sky, Emily Dickinson is explaining that the brain has no boundaries. Your brain goes as far as you let it but the sky doesnt because it has limits. This poem gave me a clear understanding about how the brain overpowers the sky. The brain is very unique because there is two sides to it so if one fails you syill have the other side to depend on. Emily Dickinson makes it seem as if the brain plays the role of God over your body because it helps you move on and understand things better. This was one of Emily’s best poems to me!!
The Brain can never stop receiving information. The Brain contains an infinite amount of space. ” The one the other will absorb-as sponges-Buckets-do-” provides a great way to put a visualization on how the brain can work. Dickinson portrays a message that every brain is different. Although, they all have an unlimited amount of space and what you choose to store in it is your decision.
I believe that Dickinson had developed an understanding of the brain at this time. She describes it with much enthusiasm and excitement, like a child with a brand new toy. I agree with her poem in the sense that the brain has limitless power. Thomas Jefferson once said that “If we did what we are truly capable of, we would astonish ourselves”. The brain is indeed wider than the sky.
Dickinson is comparing the brain to the sky, the sea and the almighty. she believes that the brain has unlimited power for which comparing to the sky it is “wider” and will “contain with ease”. Comparing to the sea, it is deeper and can “hold them–blue to blue” and comparing to god, it is the same “pound for pound”. In the end, I think Dickinson value the brain as though it was the almighty tool to use because it is unlimited.
In this poem, Dickinson compares the values of the brain with the sky, sea, and even God. The brain outweighs the sky because the sky can not increase its size, but the amount of knowledge one brain can contain is limitless. As she says: “For-put them side by side-The one the other will contain With ease-and You-beside-.” The brain is also deeper than the sea because the brain has no measurements that specify the amount of information it can hold. She believes the brain should be treasured more than nature itself.
“The Brain- is wider than the sky-” sets a mellow groove with the mind. The poem takes pieces of the enviornment and extends it out to the praise of the human mind. The idea of the sky or sea being compared to the human brain has no contest. The brain weighs to the ideas that ponder towards it like all creaters of the world to God.
The poem gave me a tingle of power. The words used to describe the brain to nature’s sea and sky pushes me to actually compliments to depth or the measurement of the brain. Embracing the fundaments of the brain gives the reader a chance to capture the imagery taken by the poem. The amount of the sea is already consited in the brain as Dickinson says, “the one the other will contain.” A Heavenly power gave us the way to exist but the mind helps to serve as a picture fram but with deeper thought.
In the poem The Brain- is wider than the sky, Dickinson compares a human’s small brain to the sky, sea, and God. She is telling about how even though our brains are small in size, they can amount to and think of things larger than one can fathom. Like her imagery with sponges, our brain is able to absorb information and hold it in forever. We can remember small things that we have not even thought about in years. When she says “The one the other will absorb – As Sponges — Buckets — do” she is saying that even though a bucket can hold the sponge, in actuality the sponge is holding more because it is what holds that water.
When Dickinson wrote, “The Brain — is wider than the Sky –” I think she was very much expressing the abilities of the human mind, and giving the credit to God. When I first read this poem it made sense to me but I truly didn’t understand how deep certain parts of it were, and it kind of opened my mind to the poem’s depth. The most confusing line is when she says, “The Brain is just the weight of God –,For — Heft them– Pound for Pound –,And they will differ — if they do –,As Syllable from Sound –”. Dickinson is comparing the brain and God to syllable and sound; “Syllables” are nothing more than the human interpretation on how to pronounce something, and “Sound” is natural and uncontrolled. Therefore she is saying the brain (syllable) is the extension of God (sound) to human, and it’s just given our own restraints. When you finally are able to understand this you can see just how much meaning is behind this simple poem.
In The Poem The Brain is wider than the Sky, Emily Dickinson compares the brain to the spaciousness of the sky and the deepness of the sea. She implies that the brain has infinite limits and various possibilities. I found it hard to comprehend at first but finally understood the poem after several readings. I agree with Dickinson, our brains are powerful and anything we set our minds to we can accomplish. Our brains have no limits unlike the sky. She states this when she says “one will contain the other”.
I believe that Dickinson’s intended message for “The Brain is wider than the Sky,” was to analyze the immaculate power of the human brain. She compares the Brain’s abilities to three immense things: the sea, the sky, and God Himself. The most confusing of the three to analyze and comprehend is the third about God. She says “The Brain is just the weight of God,”
which the wording makes it seem more confusing than im sure it was ever intended to be. It’s amazing that living during the time period she did live in that she would try God like that.
To me, this poem is an expression of religion or a religious belief. I think it was more a comparison of the brain to God, as opossed to the brain compared to the sky. I think Dickinson was trying to show that intelligence will get you farther in life then spiritual nature would. I disagree with the thought as a whole, but it is a deep expressive way to show religious opinions. “The Brain is just the weight of God” is a very interesting and powerful statement because it is saying that the brain is a powerful and as depended upon as God is.
In the poem The Brain is Wider than the sky the author, Emily Dickinson, compares the human mind to the everyday sky. Even though the brain is smaller in size, it is able to store infinite amounts of knowledge.Yet the silly sky has several boundaries restricting it. The average human’s brain does a lot in one day. It really is shocking! But the sky does not have to think or do work at all to keep people alive. All it does is sit and change colors from dark to light (day to night).
When I first read this poem I understood it but the wording was very confusing. I think she was trying to say humans are in fact the smartest species on the planet created by God. I definitely agree on her way of writing the poem. She said
“The brain-is wider than the sky-
For-put them side by side-
The one the other will contain
With ease-and You-beside-“.
it makes so much sense because the brain is not limited and it can think beyond and expand more knowledge than what we as humans normally use. “The brain is deeper than the sea” because the sea is absorbed like a “sponge” as for brains do not. Without a brain or a heart there would be no such thing as life.
One of the commenters borught that the poem relates to how the brain has no limits. that is exactly right. the brain can think on levels that many of todays scientists cannot understand. as humans we only use 10% of our brains. and yet we are able to do so much. imagaine if we used 100% of our brains. that is something to think about. the brains is so complex. i like how Dickenson says “The Brain — is wider than the Sky —
For — put them side by side —
The one the other will contain
With ease — and You — beside –” this is so true because the sjy jas a limit. it ends when we are out in space. the sky has a beginning and has an end. but the brain has no end to how much information that can be stored. that is shy Emily Dickenson compares it to a sponge.
the brain can also be compared to God. As most of us believe, God is the creator of everything. he has no beginning ad has no end. the brain can definitely be compared to the almighty because both can think above and beyond. both have nuerous amounts of information. i personally enjoy this poem because of the fact i can relate to it. it helps me to appreciate God even more and helps me to understand things on a deeper level. i think thatis what Dickenson helps us to see.
This poem mainly speaks of the human mind and how it has no limits. When comparing the brain to sky she says that “one will contain the other”. The sky has its limits and can only go so far, however the mind does not. It is so amazing how the mind can think and absorb so much that it is beyond nature itself. Although God is the bases of our mind; he created our minds and therefore deciding on how much the human will imagine. Making sense when the poet speaks “The Brain is just the weight of God.”
This poem shows the true abilities of our own brains. Although, I will dispute the fact that our brains are more powerful than God. This poem is still moving despite my former disagreement.
This time, this poem’s message refers to how powerful the heart and the mind truely are over nature. Very appalling to read about the mind. How the human mind is ‘-wider than the Sky-‘ and that it is ‘deeper than the sea-‘, its like Dickinson is trying to say that the brain is more powerful than nature itself- in other words, more powerful then God himself. Very strange when Dickinson states:
“The Brain is just the weight of God-
For-Heft them-Pound for Pound-
And they will differ-if they do-
As Syllable from Sound-”
The brain is really weighed the same as the Lord God himself? Very strange, but somewhat makes sense!
The brain is very very gross and slimy and also gooey.
E. D. is kind of weird because her poems are weird.
Iam a writer of some poetry myself. But I just love all kind of poems. But this one got a story behind it somewhere. And I am trying to write my own conclusion. This particular one just stole my heart.
Well the brain is wider than the sky and as deep as the sea have been covered extensively and very well I might add. The brain is the weight of god has been touched on but not near as much and I’d like to lend a few ideas I had on the subject. One would be that since the soul has no weight and is essentially the part of us that is closest to god the brain would be the physical attribute he gifted us with, a mind, that can comprehend both him and our world therefore it would be the weight of god. Another would be that as in a few other poems she is questioning the existance of god. The brain is the weight of god could also easily mean that he lives in our brains and since we invented god than what created and houses him is him, his weight if you will.