THE+BRAIN+IS+WIDER+THAN+THE+SKY

//** The Brain -- is wider than the Sky **//

In "The Brain is wider than the Sky", Emily Dickinson compares brain with the Sky, Sea and God. The Brain is larger, deeper than sky and sea. Though, the Brain is similar to God, they differs like "syllable from sound". This poem shows relationship between the brain and its outer world.



**The Brain -- is wider than the Sky **

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 For -- hold them -- Blue to Blue The one the other will absorb As Sponges -- Buckets -- do

The Brain is just the weight of God For -- Heft them -- Pound for Pound And they will differ -- if they do As Syllable from Sound

In the first sentence, the author immediately confirmed that even though, the Sky is large, it is not large compared to the brain. "The Brain -- is wider than the Sky ". If we put the Brain and the Sky side by side, the Brain can easily absorb the whole Sky "with ease". The brain can also absorb "you and the sky" at the same time with no troubles. The first stanza shows that doesn't matter how large the outer world is, the brain has capacity to see everything around it.

<span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The author then compare the brain with another large object, the sea. This time, instead of compare the wide surface area, the author chooses the depth of the sea to compared the brain with. " The Brain is deeper than the sea". The second stanza implies that the Brain can absorb the sea as fast and easy as sponges absorb water. The Brain is not only be able to see everything around it (first stanza), the Brain can also interpret and interact with the outer world. This stanza shows the capacity of deeper thinking of the brain.

<span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">God is the most powerful man in the universe. The Brain is weight the same as God meant that The Brain is very important and powerful as God, as " Pound for Pound". However, they do differ distinctly : "as Syllable from Sound". Syllable is language and sound is a way to pronoun it. I think the author meant the brain is syllable and God is the Sound. The Brain represent a human life and the meaning of life can only be understood by God.

<span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Overall, I think even though, the brain can see and interpret everything around us but there is a limitation. The brain can't understand everything that God has created. Everything happen for a reason and the Brain can see things happening but only God knows the reasons behind it.

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<span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1. Why does the author compare the brain with the sky, ocean and God? <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2. What is the relationship between the brain and the outside world the author meant in this poem? <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">3. How do you interpret the last Stanza differently