elvis93
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Would you be so kind to correct gramatically my interpretation of this poem?
It is written by Emily Dickinson and I would be delighted if you give me also your personal judgement about it.
Thanks a lot in advance.
The poem is the following:
“Nature” is what we see
The Hill The Afternoon
Squirrel Eclipse the Bumble tree
Nay Nature is Heaven
Nature is what we hear
The Bobolink the Sea
Thunder the Cricket
Nay Nature is Melody
Nature is what we know
Yet have no art to say
So impotent Our Wisdom is
To her semplicity.
Analysis and interpretation of the poem:
The poetess describes the immense beauty of Nature by emphatizing its intensity and magnificence, which is in contrast with the human being who is so tiny and insignificant.
We can only admire “its semplicity” without saying a word because we cannot do this even if we want to.
We live in a world in which macrocosm and microcosm doesn't coincide as we are not part of this “semplicity”, which even nowadays is mostly incomprehensible.
We are inert observers who cannot explain neither the easiest meccanisms of the surrounding universe,nor describe properly her beauty.
It is clearly visible that the mankind is totally disanthropomorphised by nature as they're two different realities.
On the other hand,I think Dickinson wanted to highlight the tendence of humanity to magnify and make the things bigger than they are, maybe because we have forgotten that the real beauty can be found beyond the spontaneous things such as a “squirrel, the bumble tree, an eclipse” or maybe because we are afraid of this semplicity.
Would you be so kind to correct gramatically my interpretation of this poem?
It is written by Emily Dickinson and I would be delighted if you give me also your personal judgement about it.
Thanks a lot in advance.
The poem is the following:
“Nature” is what we see
The Hill The Afternoon
Squirrel Eclipse the Bumble tree
Nay Nature is Heaven
Nature is what we hear
The Bobolink the Sea
Thunder the Cricket
Nay Nature is Melody
Nature is what we know
Yet have no art to say
So impotent Our Wisdom is
To her semplicity.
Analysis and interpretation of the poem:
The poetess describes the immense beauty of Nature by emphatizing its intensity and magnificence, which is in contrast with the human being who is so tiny and insignificant.
We can only admire “its semplicity” without saying a word because we cannot do this even if we want to.
We live in a world in which macrocosm and microcosm doesn't coincide as we are not part of this “semplicity”, which even nowadays is mostly incomprehensible.
We are inert observers who cannot explain neither the easiest meccanisms of the surrounding universe,nor describe properly her beauty.
It is clearly visible that the mankind is totally disanthropomorphised by nature as they're two different realities.
On the other hand,I think Dickinson wanted to highlight the tendence of humanity to magnify and make the things bigger than they are, maybe because we have forgotten that the real beauty can be found beyond the spontaneous things such as a “squirrel, the bumble tree, an eclipse” or maybe because we are afraid of this semplicity.