View Full Version : About some of the poems of Emily Dickinson's
gaboraa
12-13-2011, 03:43 PM
I am sorry to ask such a silly request but my native language isn't English and my teacher gave me some poems to analyze and if anyone here could give me some explanations about them would be appreciated. Here they are:
The feet of people walking home, I breathed enough, After a hundred years, Hope is the thing and finally Wild nights. By the way all of them was written by Emily Dickinson.
j.hart
12-16-2011, 06:52 PM
The feet of people walking home: i believe this is about heaven (my figures fail to tell me how far the Village lies). she talks about death and angels.
I breathed Enough: perhaps she is talking about dying, about living but not really living- it is God who is the true spirit within? you can argue about that one.
After a hundred years: sounds like a battlefield. doesn't it?
Hope: that's self-explanatory. she is describing hope.
wild nights: is she talking about her lover?
her poems are so beautiful because they are like... secrets... unfolding, hidden within another secret. you must imagine yourself in her mind, try to see what hse is seeing. otherwise, you will never be able to unravel the mystery at all.
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