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A 5 page analysis of Emily
Dickinson's poem "I Started Early--Took My Dog." Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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times. We can see her poems as symbolic of death, love, despair, hope, and of course, nature. One of her poems, "I Started Early--Took My Dog," is, like many of
her other poems, very symbolic. However, like her poems, its symbolism is perhaps up to the individual reader. In the following paper we analyze her poem, presenting various perspectives and
then arguing that it is a poem which deals with the power of nature. I Started Early--Took My Dog By all appearances, Emily Dickinsons poem describes the sea.
That much can not be disputed. But, from there many argue that her use of the sea is symbolic for many different things. In better understanding this we first present
the following lines from the beginning of her poem: "I STARTED early, took my dog, / And visited the sea; / The mermaids in the basement / Came out to
look at me, / And frigates in the upper floor/ Extended hempen hands, / Presuming me to be a mouse / Aground, upon the sands" (Dickinson 1-8). In this we
see a very simplistic, yet powerfully poetic, description of the sea. She uses imagery, that involving mermaids and the "hempen hands" to present us with the sheer power of the
sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic angles. For example, one individual writes that "this poem is allegorical and contains beneath the
more or less mannered surface an ominously serious theme, so that the manner appears in a new light and is somewhat altered in effect. The sea is here the traditional
symbol of death; that is, of all the forces and quali- /285/ ties in nature and in human nature which tend toward the dissolution of human character and consciousness" (Winters
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