Blog Post #1: “The Brain – is wider than the sky-” by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson”s poetry titled ” The Brain – is wider than the sky-“. In the first stanza it compares the human brain with the sky. Which suggests that the brain is wider than the sky. This portrays that the mind has the power to think and imagine beyond anything. Also I think that the meaning of the first stanza of this poetry is that the brain has no limit . This is why the speaker compares the brain with the sky because even though the sky is high and very wide, the brain is wider because it has the power to do almost anything with you on the side. On the second and third stanza of this poetry it talks about the brain being deeper than the sea and the brain just being the weight of god. In these last two stanza I think the significance is the brain can absorb anything . For example, the brain can absorb any kind of information , images that the eyes sees and the brain captures or any sounds that you hear the brain will absorb just like a sponge or a bucket does. The brain being just the weight of god means that the brain in all can be very powerful and great as god is but not infinite. Overall, what makes this piece of writing literature is that it describes the brain and compares with things of nature like the sky, the sea and god . Is like the writer of this poetry is trying to express that the brain is a very beautiful thing like the sea and was made to perceive the great things created while you on the side. The way the writer expresses herself about the brain is in a very artistic way and so this is why i think this piece of writing is literature.