EMILY'S+LOSING+IT

//** It dropped so low in my regard **//



It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind;

Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less Than I reviled myself For entertaining plated wares Upon my silver shelf.

Emily Dickinson had a lot of time to think while she sat around in her room for most of her life. Eventually, she began losing her mind from being cooped up inside her whole life. This poem illustrates the beginning of the end for Emily. In the poem she talks about something dropping so low that it hits the ground, and she can hear it. I think this symbolizes the thoughts in her brain starting to turn for the worse and she can sense it happening. She also talked about them crashing at the bottom of her mind. And at the end she talks about plates dropping off of her silver shelf. This silver shelf could be considered her brain and the plates starting to fall off symbolize her thought taking a turn for the worse and her realizing just how much she regrets staying inside her whole life.