Summary Of The Brain Is Deeper Than The Sea By Emily Dickinson

any scholars shudder at the idea of dissecting any of the simple, yet strikingly complex, poems of the great American author Emily Dickinson. When a reader first views one of the multitudes of Dickinson’s texts, their first response is one of simplicity. Due to the length of her poetry, many people believe that they will turn out to be simple. Yet, once someone begins to read one of Emily Dickinson’s poems, it does not take long to realize the utter complexity of the text. As said by Wiggins, author of Prentice Hall’s, American Experience Volume 1, “Dickinson’s poetry was printed as she had meant it to be read, and the world experienced the power of her complex mind captured in concrete imagery and simple but forceful language.” Through this,

Dickinson depicts human understanding as something boundless and unlimited in her poem by stating, “The Brain is deeper than the sea-.” An educated reader will first point out the fact that the word, brain, is capitalized. In doing this, Dickinson shows that she is referring to something more than just an ordinary organ in a body, but is in fact referencing the human mind. In this passage she is stating that the human mind can store vast amounts of information. This idea is supported by modern thinkers such as Forrest Wickman, who, in an article published by Slate, states that the human brain has a capacity equal to, “ 100 trillion data points, or about 100 terabytes of information.” Through this quote, Wickman is agreeing with Dickinson 's idea that the human brain can hold a vast amount of

The idea that human understanding is boundless is depicted through the lines, “The Soul selects her own society-.” Through these lines, Dickinsons is expressing an idea that human choose their friends metaphysically, or with the use of our minds and souls. This is supported in a way by Amy C., who states, “Studies show we choose friends that we cross paths with regularly.” This is in agreement with the ideas of Dickinson because it shows that humans befriend those who they are around the most, but they do not do it by using their brain and considering this, but instead it happens metaphysically, or as many people sometimes say, “without us even knowing.” This clearly shows the idea that human understanding is both boundless and unlimited through the idea that we can choose friends without the use of our physical