critical analysis of poem THE WIND BEGUN TO ROCK THE GRASS by EMILY DICKINSON
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Emily Dickinson’s “the wind ……the grass” is a poem on nature. This is the pre-setting of rain. In the first stanza, the poet explains that the wind had started blowing and it started moving the grass, it was creating menace to Earth by moving dirt from one place to another and to Sky by pushing the dust and heat.
The wind dirtied the Earth by making the leaves to fall from its tree and to fly in different directions and the wind scooped the dust like the way we scoop the ice-cream and threw it on the road
The poet then describes about the thunder and the lightning. She says that the sound of the thunder made the wagons and the people who were walking on the street, to move fast. The lightning is compared to beak and claws of an angry bird.
She then describes about the reactions of the birds on the trees, they covered their nests and the cattle literally flew to their respective barns. She compares the initial drop of the rain to Giant. She says that the downpour was so heavy that it destroyed the sky.
The poet, due to her sickness during certain part of her life, was confirmed to the four walls of her house. It was during those times, most of her poetry was written. The last lines of this poem state the same. She says that when she looked out of her Father’s place, she could see that the rain had covered quarter part of a tree.
In this poem, the poet has used similes and imagery as a poetic device and she explains the terror that nature could create on the living beings.