Mind Of Dickinson

I believe that clearly, our poet says, "We are the Flower--Thou the Sun!” meaning that women are the flower, and the male is symbolized by the sun, she includes the exclamation point [!] for those who don’t believe it. The Sun is masculine, not only with her speaking to "Sir" as the receiver, but clearly uses the masculine "his" to comment upon the display of the "golden" orb as he completes his "walk" across her Amherst town from East to West.

Eden is clearly the magnificent metaphor behind Poem 106. No doubt she saw her Amherst town as endemic. I am reminded of her letters to Abiah Root when Emily Dickinson was even younger at age 15, thir

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Now is she saying that even though she may subjective to what the sun does, she is a rebel, one who strays from the norm? I think she is very much saying this. The daisy uses it as a trap so that it can get what it wants. Thus, she, as Eve, in the garden of Eden, "Sits shyly at his feet--" In the European tradition, she, "the Flower," the "Daisy," is female, in name and metaphoric object, and in the acceptance of her wifely role to her Master, her Adam, symbolized by the "Sun. The sun calls out, “-Marauder-art thou here?” Marauder means, one, which raids and plunders. When the sun parts to the west she is saying that it is a beautiful thing. I think that Dickinson is saying that she has the sun in the palm of her hand. It’s a changing world and the power and control of men is slowly parting to the west and setting far away from the daisy. Such a bold image and symbol as the sun sitting at the feet of a feeble flower? It just doesn’t seem appropriate does it? I think she is saying that the daisy is in power here. It is saying to the audience that there are many roads ahead for women, not only for the future but the present. He has freedom to move through the sky and dominion over all living things, including the "daisy" (female) that has neither mobility nor power. ” I think the daisy could be playing with the sun. I find it so astounding when she says, “Forgive us, if as days decline-We nearer steal to Thee! Enamored of the parting West-The peace-The flight-The Amethyst- Nights possibility!” I struggled with this stanza for many days. "

To lay emphasis on this, Emily Dickinson wrote: "If you find any statements which you think likely to prove the truth of the case…” I would suggest, as per Emily Dickinson's thoughts to Abiah Root, we look at her "statements," in particular, Poem 106.

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