Mind Of Dickinson
TO TAP INTO THE MIND OF DICKINSON... I think that Poem 106 offers up to the audience a wide range of thought and analysis. The poem is about relationships. The relationship between man and woman, and how there is a controlling factor within the relationship. The poet however is speaking about the change in control in power, or at least this is what I perceive. She she's the relationship as a power shift, an uncanny relationship that is quite the opposite of what the typical male to female relationship was during her time period. I hope to make this clear further in my analysis. 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, th
When the sun parts to the west she is saying that it is a beautiful thing. " Apparently, this extended metaphor from her youth made its way into her poetry and runs thematically throughout. The daisy uses it as a trap so that it can get what it wants. I think that Dickinson is saying that she has the sun in the palm of her hand. Society may say that women have no future nor do their opinions or thoughts count, but under the cover of night (or what I translate to emergence of women being united to fight against societal image) there are so many different options and endeavors that women should indulge themselves in. 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. 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. The extreme discrepancy that Dickinson perceived between male and female power is evident in these lines. 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. " I think the daisy could be playing with the sun. It is saying to the audience that there are many roads ahead for women, not only for the future but the present.
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