...rtainty and uncontrollability about death. The observers speech seems hesitant and unsure of hat he or she is seeing, partly because of the dashes, but also because of the ords used to describe the scene. As the eye is observed looking for something, then becoming cloudy and progressing through more obscurity until it finally comes to rest, the person observing the death cannot provide any definite proof that hat the dying person sa as hopeful or disturbing. The dying person seems to have no control over the clouds covering his or her eye, hich is frantically searching for something that it can only hope to find before the clouds totally consume it. Death, as an incontrollable force, seems to seep over the dying. The idea that something exists after death is uncertain in this poem the point of vie is that of the observer. The observer sees in the first fe lines Ive seen a Dying Eye, Run round and round a Room -- s In search of Something -- as it seemed. From the start, e assume that the eye is searching for evidence of an afterlife, but only the dying person knos for hat the eye is searching. The reader gets a sense that the observer, ho represents the living, knos hat the dying eye is looking for, but because the observer is alive, the anser is hidden from his or her eyes. By using the ord seemed , Dickinson, along ith her ever-present dashes, injects an element of doubt in the speakers voice as to hether something does exist.As in other Dickinson poems about death, there is a journey, hoever small, that the dying person embarks upon. Although it is not a life-long journey, as it as in Because I could not stop for death , the dying person did travel through the obscurity of the clouds searching for something. The eyes journey through the clouds and the expanding obscurity represents the search for an existence after death. As the eye ran around the room the obseerver sees the eyes journey, Then Cloudier become -- And then obscure ith Fog --. It seems that the eye is still searching, hile the clouds, re presenting death, close in around them. The most important part of the poem comes toards the end hen the eye closes and ceases to search the room. And then ithe eyes be soldered don, ithout disclosing hat it be Tere blessed to have seen --.The eye seems to be agitated and searching desperately for an afterlife existence.The dying personss eye is then soldered don and fails to let the observer knohat it sa, or if it sa anything. The use of the ord solder implies to the reader that hatever anser the eye found beyond the clouds is no permanently sealed aay from the living orld. A glimmer of hope remain at the end of this journey, according to Dickinson. In the last line, Tere blessed to have seen -- , a hope hangs on the ord blessed , and that ord sounds as a positive anser to the questions e ask.The other meaning that could be taken from that line is that hat aaits us is not necessarily blessed or good, but that the observer thinks the dying person is no blessed because he or she finally knos the anser to the life-long question. It seems that Dickinson purposefully leaves the poem open-ended to keep that uncertainty alive in her poem. The only time the uncertainty of death is made certain is during that moment hen our eyes begin their search through the engulfing clouds.Considering more of her poems, death is alays regarded as something natural and silent, hich she peacefully accepts Good-bye to the life I used to live, And the orld I used to kno is For e must ride to the Judgement , And its partly don the hill. FareellConcerning the theme of love in her poems, Emily Dickinson believes that it is the prismatic quality of passion that matters, and the energy passing through an experience of love reveals a spectrum of possibilities. In keeping ith her tradition of looking at the circumference an idea, Dickinson never actually defines a conclisive love or lover at the end of her love poetry, instead concentrating on passion as a hole.Throughout Emilys life she held emotionally compelling relationships ith both men and omen. The differerences in the prismatic qualities of each type of relationship come through Dickinsons prism imagery. Adalaide Moris, a feminist critic, summarizes these differences in her essay The love of Thee a Prism Be In one imale prisms the supremacy of the patriarch informs the rituals of courtship, family, government, and religion in the other ifemale prisms, the implied equality of sisterhood is played out in ceremonies of romantic, familial,social, and even religious reciprocity.In her poetry, Emily represents the males as the Lover, Lord and Master as the omen take complementary positions to their male superiors, and many times the relationship beteen the sexes is seen in metaphor omen as His Little Spaniel or his hunting gun. The omans existence is only contingent to the encircling poer of the man. Dickinsons linked imagery in her male love poetry focuses on suns, storms, volcanoes, and life itself. There are alays elements of disturbance or extremes and explosive settings, but also an imagery of forever silence. There are also examples of the repression of love causing storm imagery to become silent, supressed volcanic activity something on the verge of explosion or activity. Of course, in the repressed individual the potential for explosion or action can be very dangerous, and frequently in Dickinsons ork this kind of love relationship ends of someone receiving a ound This, dost thou doubt, seet Then have I Nothing to sho But Calvary.Nature,the last theme in Dickinsons poetry, is portrayed in a quiet, affectious and minutious manner. She often identified nature ith heaven or God, hich could have been the result of her unique relationship ith God and the universe. She alays held nature in reverence throughout her poetry, because she regarded nature as almost religious. One of the most obvious things that Dickinson did in her poetry as paying minute attention to things that nobody else noticed. She as obsessed ith the details, paying attention to things such as hills, bumble bees, and eclipses. In these details, she found manifestations of the universal and felt the silent harmony that bound everything together. The small details and particulars that caught her eye ere like small dramas of existence Convicted could e be Of our Minutiae, The smallest citizen that flies Has more integrity. In the folloing poem, Dickinson rites ho nature acts as a houseife seeping through the sunset She seeps ith many-colored brooms, And leaves the shreds behind Oh,houseife in the evening est, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling in, You dropped a purple ravelling in, You dropped an amber thread And no youve littered all the East ith duds of emerald! Dickinson artistically shos the sunset in terms of house cleaning. Only somebody ith the observational poers and original creati...
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