Poem+512

Emily Dickinson's poem 512 (//The sould has Bandaged moments//) describes her views and thoughts about what fear is.

The first stanza introduces the idea of fear. It says how fear is an emotion that friegthends not just your mind, but also frightens your sould. It is something that is not a slow process of emotion, it comes as a spark of a scary excitement.

The second stanza describes the features of someone who has been frightened. Wher you're scare, you get goodsbumbs and feel cold, the hair on you arms, legs, back, etc. stand straight up. Goblin from her lips i think is referring to the colorless pigment that your lips turn when your deathly afraid of something, someone, or a situation.

The third stanza is tellling what a sould does when you are frightenend. It gets jumpy and thumps harder.

Fear is something that dosen't just affect your mental state. It also affects your soul, heart, and body. I find this interesting becuase i think all of us, including myself, have experienced the feeling of being scared so badly that your heart thumps as hard as a slamming door, the breathtaking chill that captivates your body, the loss of the ability to know the difference between reality and mind-games, etc. Fear is something we all experience. 1204260460

I really liked this poem //The soul has Bandaged moments// by Emily Dickinson. To me the topic of this poem was fear. It kind of is telling us that fear is a good thing and a bad thing. It is also saying that when we are scared it affects our soul and our body. I also think that she is talking about how when we are scared we get a good a bad feeling. For example in the last stanza. She says "The Horror welcomes her, again". Emily is talking about horror but she kind of makes horror seem not as bad as we expect By using the word "welcomes" it gives it a gentler touch to it. I think that when we write, what we say and the way we say it can give it totally different meanings. If Emily Dickinson didn't say welcomed we wouldn't feel like this poem has the same meaning. Although I liked this poem it was one of the ones that i didn't understand right. I really enjoyed reading this poem. I love Emily Dickinson and her poetry. They give such good messages. 1205277659

The first line in the poem "The Soul has Bandaged moments --" sort of gave me an easy overview of what the poem was about. I interpreted this first line to mean - there are times in each and every persons life where something is not quite right, and where we are given a bad "gut feeling" that something is wrong. This is the type of moment i felt was being described. I also took it as emotion. Certain types of emotion affect the way a person acts. A couple more lines down, the word FRIGHT is brought up. My final thought as to what Dickinson was really trying to get across to the reader, was that fright affects the soul. That the thought of fear is not just mental and does not just affect a person mentally, but also has an ending affect on them physically. The physical effects such as the cold and shocking state and goosebumps is an example of fear affecting a person physically. These ideas can affect a person tremendously. 1205458192