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The Heart has narrow Banks It measures like the Sea In mighty — unremitting Bass And Blue Monotony

Till Hurricane bisect And as itself discerns Its sufficient Area The Heart convulsive learns

That Calm is but a Wall Of unattempted Gauze An instant's Push demolishes A Questioning — dissolves.

I believe this poem has many deep meanings about the heart. First, in line one, it says that the heart has narrow banks. This to me means two different things. For one, I think that this means that the heart swells often, espcially when it beats. This also leads into something else. The heart acts as a pump to pump bloodflow throughout your body. I also think that this means that many things can affect us emotionally. This can cause our so called "narrow banks" to overflow. In the second line, it says that the heart measures like the sea. What she's saying here is that our heart has many levels, like the ocean floor does and it has many different depths. This also means that our heart is a deep as the sea. She goes on describing the heart in lines three and four as confusing and mysterious. In stanza two, I believe that Emily Dickinson is saying that the heart learns through human experiences like pain, happiness, or sadness. The third stanza says that the heart is very fragile and that the heart builds walls to try to forget bad things that has happened to that person in the past, but then when that person remembers or questions that certain thing that happened and begin to just remember it and not get sad about it, the walls begin to desolve.

In conclusion, I actually have liked all of Dickinson's poems so far and this is just yet another one I am adding to that list. 1203200116

This poem shows the breaking of a heart through through examples of the open world. Just as the hurricane ruins the sea. The first section explains the heart as it pumps and as it pumps emtions will fill out of it throughout your body. The second section is the heart break. The divider of ones heart that causes those emotions to stop and to hurt. That hurt lessons the pump and makes it insuffiecent. The third section is the healing. The heart has to rebuild itself and the process takes awhile and at first is thin. If you mess with that heart it is easily broken again. But not until the pumps that gets it through, the process of healing, is that hurt and pain finally dissolves day by day.

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This poem, written by Emily Dickinson is an interesting poem with a motivating message. It seems to me, that most of Dickinson’s poems that we have read in class, and at home are an assessment between two very contrastable things. In this particular poem, the heart is the consistent “item” being compared.

In the first stanza is being compared to the sea. Like a sea, the heart is a constant rhythm; a particular heartbeat occasionally goes dumdum, dumdum, dumdum, etc. Like the ocean, the waves rise and crash, rise and crash in a constant, repeated motion. Also, the sound of the heartbeat is the same tone, it never really changes. It maintains the same rhythm throughout; just as an ocean would.

In the second stanza, the heart is now being compared to a hurricane. In class, a student brought up an interesting thought; a hurricane is a whirl-wind. It is disruptive, and tends to ruin a lot of people’s state of mind. In the context of the poem, the hurricane is the heart and souls changing of emotions. When emotions and feelings change, the calm and collective presence we seem to carry becomes disrupted, and the tranquil appeal we once carried, becomes invisible. With the disruption and confusion, we become lost and tend to become uncomfortable in the situation.

In the final stanza, Dickinson brings the collective intellect, back and explains herself as if the disturbance and bewilderment thrust upon us had never happened. Sometimes in our lives, we experience moments like the one described in this poem and yet it seems as if it were a dream. We then end up questioning what went on, almost as if we had the slightest intimation. 1203478740

I thought that this poem was so different beause i wouldn't have guess what te poem was trying to say it without reading it a couple times. In the poem, a heart is being compared to the sea. Instead of what mje said about the poem about the constant speed, i think that the first stanza is about setting the scene for the rest of the poem. At that point, you are unable to tell what is going to happen but just know the descriptive features of the sea and heart.

In the second stanza, Dickenson talks about how a hurricane goes through the sea, and destroys him. A hurricane could be just like heartbreak because for the time being, a heatbreak could destroy someone's heart. The heart can learn from the happenings of the sea and know about the ruining that something can do to the sea. We talked about this poem in class and how the second and third stanza's are enjambments, poems that flow from line to line that you read continueisly. I think that this can be so complicated at times, because the poem can seem to have a whole new meaning if it is just read in a different way. For example, In the last line of stanza two, Dickenson says: The heart convulsice learns-

That calm is but a wall.

Because the two are in different stanzas, i didn't think at first that they were joined, but after i learned and the poem made much more sense. In the third stanza, Emily talks about how "calm" is an example of being a bandaide for pain and sometimes all it takes is just one little thing for everything else to break down.

Besides all of the enjambment, i really liked this comparrison and enjoyed reading the poem. 1203549411ape2

the first stanza is saying the heart is smooth and flows like the sea. the second stanza i saying the heart is smooth until it is disturbed and disrupted. for example, if someone is in love and they get their heart broken, thats when the hurricane bisects the emotion of love. the third stanza is saying the heart can rejuvenate, but it will take some time. it wont be instant.

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I think that the first stanza is explaining that the human heart is complicating yet flows like the sea. Our heart feels and reacts to every word that is processed through our minds. It has narrow banks which means it has small banks to which blood or feeling flows throughout our body. Its mighty and powerful yet easily broken, and with time it can be repaired. The heart convulsive learns- the heart learns from its mistakes. When brokenm it is warned to never step into that hole again. I think that this poem is recognizing all the feeling and axiety we feel in our hearts. We can feel so calm as if we are like the walls we stare at or we can feel so convulsive and emotional as if we are about to break down into little pieces. And in an instant push, a questioning dissolves. Therefore, a question, thought or feeling...simply goes away. 1203798281

I got the feel that this poem was comparign the heart to many different things. I t sais the heart is like the sea and i think this means that the sea has a wide variety of fishes and species in it, and a heart has a lot of feeling and emotions the heart and the sea are a good comparison. I do not know what it means by a unremmiting bass. The till hurricane bisect part is to sea as a heart attack or disruption is to a heart, or at least that is what i got from that part. In the last stanza it is pretty much saying that sometimes in our life we experience some sureal or out of this world experiences that ca not be put into words. 1204250922

This poem by Emily Dickinson was one of the harder poems for me to understand. Here is my rough explanation on what i think the narrator is trying to get across to us readers. The heart has consectutive and rythymic beats, just as waves have a consecutive and rythmic beat. This is the comparison that Emily Dickinson makes in this poem; a heart to the sea.

A hurricane's winds are convulsive just as the narrator describes the learning of the heart. (there's another comparison) A hurricane can disect (cut into) a world, just as an emotion of hurt or pain can dig into a loving heart. As much as a heart can be calm and soothing, jsut as the sea, when they are disrupted, they can be distroyed and dangerous. As i said this is a very rough summary becuase i didn't really understand this poem

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This was a really nice and short poem about the heart. I think it was a lot easier to comprehend because the way its format was written and the fact that it rhymes also makes it easier to understand. The first stanza just somewhat describes the heart itself. It explains how it works like in a constant patterns. The secon stanza then begins to tell about a tragedy that happened to the heart, like it says "till hurricane bisects" I think that in a way of the heart it would mean a broken heart like if you broke up with your boyfriend. Then it concludes by saying that the heart discerns itself like saying that when your heart gets broken it then tries to heal itself. The third stanza is kinda confusing but i believe it says that when the slightest little thing happens to ones heart it can ruin everything. Therefore the heart needs to stay in that perfect balance. 1204690347

This was a pretty good short poem. I think that the first stanza means that the heart can be nice, strong, and flows like the sea. The second stanza is talking about how the heart is kind and smooth until a huricane bisects it, the hurricane could be something that happens to break your heart causing disruption and chaos. The third stanza is is talking about how the heart can be repaired but it takes a lot of time, it can't heal right away. Your heart can only recover if you give it time to recover, thats what I think this poem by Emily Dickenson means. 1204771417