The brain- is wider than the sky- by Emily Dickinson shows me what literature is because of the way it makes me think and makes me think about how one line could mean two different meanings, and how she words certain lines to make them stand out to the reader. An example of it is when she states. “the brain is just the weight of god” here the reader has to think about what she means, from what I read I believe what she is stating is that the brain can absorb and take in as much information as needed, basically saying that the mind/brain is just like the sea or sky. which is why I consider it a piece of literature because it is comparing two items that are not normally compared and making the reader think. the author could have just easily related the brain to a computer and could have stated many aspects that were similar when it came to both of them yet she chose these specific words and tied them back to the brain forcing the reader to think about her statements. This is what I believe to be literature when an author has to make the reader think about the words they put in their piece of writing, which is exactly what Dickinson showed us here in this piece of poetry