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A 5 page paper which examines how both of these poems are expressing the same message. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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complacently acquiesce to the conventional gender stereotypes imposed by society. Rather than conform to this patriarchal concept of the feminine ideal, Emily Dickinson retreated into the safe haven of
her New England home, where she liberated herself the only way she could, through poetic expression. She became enamored of the Transcendentalist literary movement espoused by her local male
contemporaries such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was a type of spiritualist philosophy that viewed the world in terms of knowledge rather than sensory experience.
Dickinson considered the interpretation of reality in two poems, #632 and #435. In poem #635, Dickinson pondered, "The Brain -- is wider than the Sky -- For
-- put them side by side -- The one the other will contain With ease -- and You -- beside -- The Brain is deeper than the sea --
- hold them -- Blue to Blue -- The one the other will absorb -- As Sponges -- Buckets -- do -- The Brain is just the weight
of God -- - Heft them -- Pound for Pound -- And they will differ -- if they do -- As Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510).
This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, speculates that it rests in an "inner reality" of the human "psyche" (Ward 66). As was
her custom, #632 is broken up by the use of double dashes, which serve to emphasize Dickinsons convictions and also keeps thoughts separate, and also capitalized certain key words within
lines of the stanzas. Here, she suggests that the way in which the mind perceives reality is through symbols, such as in the "syllable" and "sound" of language (Anderson
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