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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 —

The first section is about how The brain has an endless possibilities as long as you are able to expand your knowledge and believe. If you put your mind to something anything is possible. You must take breathes and breathe your way through life taking in your surroundings and learning from what is around you. If you "contain with ease" you will be able to far and "wide." The second section is about The brain and its vast depths to learn. Many believe your brain can "be full" and can't learn any more, but if you learn to intake the knowledge slowly and usefully you can intake as much as you want. You have endless availibilites to learn and many resources around you. Just as sponges can take large amounts of water, we have to be able to to that with knowledge. We should learn from all around us... the wise, the young, and our peers. Just a sponge absorbs all around them, we should do the same and absorb from are surroundings. The final section compares The brain to God. God has power throughout the world and is known through many nations. We to can have to opportunity to use the knowledge we gain from our endless possibilities and the wise knowledge we absorbed from around us. We can use that to become a type of powerful that everyone should experience! We can become great, we each are able to, but the ones who really become great out those who use themselves, what they are given, and put there BRAIN to use. They see beyond the human thought and into what we have been given. They gain power and reach out to others. They become known. And they become a sort of brainly God. 1203052264EPA1

This is a very short but intriuging poem. Dickinson is comparing our brain to many things such as the sea, God, and the sky. This poem is interesting because people forget our brains are a spectacular tool that we actually only use 10% of. In the first stanza, she explains how our brain is wider than the sky. Our brain is wider than the sky because it has endless possibilites, our knowledge can only grow bigger and expand day by day. In the second stanza, she is comparing our brain to the sea. Dickinson say's our brain is deeper than the sea, I like this statement because the sea is extremely deep as people know and saying our brain is deeper definitley means alot. In the 3rd stanza she is comparing our brain to God. The brain is like God because it can create many opportuinites for people in life such as getting them a good job and so on. Overall, this is a very interesting poem because Dickinson is really able to get the point across about how our brains mean so much to us. 1203288512

Br. Tom gave each student in the class a number between 1 and 4; and then assigned partners with the corresponding numbers. My partner and i were assigned number 4, with the poem "The Brain - is Wider than the sky." I interpreted this poem to be a comparison between the brain and the natural world. In the first stanza, the brain is compared to the wideness and span of the sky; indeed. The brain is an instrument of knowledge. It is sort of that like a machine. It is constantly working and processing unknown information to neighbors and peers. It contains an ample multiplicity similar to the great range of activity present in the blue sky above. Just as we sometimes wonder what people are thinking; the sky is full of mystery as well. Every time we take a moment to look up and connect with the wildlife above, something new is present. The sky is a machine, constantly working; and constantly processing. The brain is a machine, constantly working; and constantly processing.  In the second stanza, Dickinson states, “the brain is deeper than the sea… the one the other will absorb as sponges – buckets – do.” Brad and I discussed the possibilities to what these two statements could mean, and we came to the conclusion that the brain is an abyss. Information goes into it, over and over again; and at times it may feel like your head is going to explode because it hurts so badly, but the truth is the brain can handle a handful of fact. In addition to that thought, the deeper the thoughts, somehow the more meaningful they seem to become. The more time put into thinking and planning on what to say and what to communicate toward others; the more it seems to be understandable and effective. “The one the other will absorb as sponges – buckets – do.” This short phrase seems to mean that the mind is like a sponge; absorbing information, thoughts, and feelings.  Finally, “the brain is just the weight of God.” This clearly states that the brain is being compared to the great and almighty God. The brain is all powerful, knowing all information ever given to you to keep track of; the memories, the virtues. Your thoughts and feelings come from your mind. Your brain is your guide. It communicates with you, and through you. This is incredibly ironic, considering that God indeed does the same things.user:mje1  I found this poem to be the best one to my opinion out of the four we worked on during class. The first stanza I think what means to me is to put your ideas and work into action and just the EASE and YOU will accomplish it so when you put things into motion, you will be able to accomplish whatever that is you put your mind set on. The sencond stanza means the brain is the most wise and knowledgable gift people have, it explores through many ideas and new discoveries so it can dive into deeper and new thoughts and areas of education. Whatever the brain learns in one day it absorbs tht information and realeases it by explaining or answering answers to questions or problems. The third stanza compares to the weight of God to the weightless syllables of sounds. It's saying the brain can infinitley be learning as much as it can. We've also discussed about having people to be able to be as smart as the Almighty Father, but I find it highly unlikely. 1203430189  This is my kind of poem because i can understand it pretty easy. All she really is doing is saying that if we can see the sky sea, than we can comprehend it, and therefore we can fit it in our brains making our brains bigger than the sky and the sea. I think it also saying that God gave us the gift of thoought and that we should use it by taking in all the images and ideas of the sea and the sky, and embrace them and understand them, and feel them. She is in a way saying that we should think and use our brains so we aren't lumps on the couch watching mindless cartoons, well at her time just sitting around. We should look at everything and thinkl about it so we can have a better undrstanding f life. Like; when you ee a tree don't just think of a tree thiink of life, growning, and the life cycle. Dickinson is saying that we need to see this and understand this using our brains, because we can we have the capacity, so we should use it.

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I had to read this poem for class and i really enjoyed it. When i read it, i took it as the brain has endless possibilities, and no one can ever take that away from you. Even though the sky is huge, the brain can take up the space of the sky and fill it. The brain goes as deep as the bottom of the ocean and can contain enormous amounts of energy. There is nothing that we can't do if we set our minds to it and all it takes is belief and we will be able to do whatever we want to.1203657727ape2

I actually enjoyed reading this poem. I liked how it was pretty easy to read and to understand the basic idea of what Emily Dickinson was telling us. This poem is all about the brain and how it is one of the most important things in our bodies. The brain is compared to many things in this poem. One thing that it is compared to is the sky. The sky is very large and if a brain is compared to something that big I think it has to be a pretty important thing. I think the author was trying to tell us that our brain can do endless things. We just need to use them and we can think of anything. The brain is so big it stores all the information we once learned and it stores all of our memories, we just need to look for them. The brain is also compared to the sea and how it is deep. I think this goes along with storing information. Like when Emily Dickinson was talking about sponges. Sponges soak up water and I think this is a very creative comparison, because our brains soak up information. The brain is also compared to God. God is in charge of everything and created everything. The brain could be like God because it is in charge of all the we know. All of our information is in our brain. 1203869578

I like this poem because it pretty straight forward unlike a lot of these poems we have been reading. Emily is practically explain the brain to us in this poem, matter of fact she is. If you can see or understand how large and vast the sky is you can understand how far the brain can be taught. The brain is deeper then the sea in a sense that you can do anything you want in life, a brain offers a vast amount of different opportunities in our life and it make us unique, it gives us depth. The brain is the weight of god in a sense that if you/your brain believes in God it is god, what your brain thinks of is what you see and what you think. It’s a different way of takeing things but I believe she is really trying to say that people need to think and become creative and imaginative kinda like her and with that we gain power in our heads. 1203986586

This poem is basically telling us that there are limits to all physical things but your brain is unlimited because you can think of anything with your imagination. I like this poem because it is saying that the most powerful object in the world is your brain and it is personally with you. The brain allows you to do anything you want to do and there are no limits on what you can learn you can keep fillin your mind with information and it will never stop learning.

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At first when I briefly read this poem, I took this stanza on the surface level and missed some of the deeper meanings. I took a more in depth approach and thought that maybe Emily Dickinson was commenting on the imaginative power of the brain and our ability to percieve ideas that are much bigger than our physical brain. Athough, my first guess was not completely off, it was just too forward and simple. Knowing that, I took my imagine to the extreme! I think Dickinson is actually implying that the “Sky” as well as everything about us is a construction of the brain. If that's true, then everything that surrounds us as well as our behavior is a result of our brains. People see the world differently and act differently due mainly to brain behaviors. I think, this is such an important point for parents/teachers/coaches etc. Because they are the role models responsible for shaping the minds of us young people. Environment affects the brain, so what our superiors do in the classroom, gym, or at home will affect OUR brains behavior. 1204073629

This poem is deeper and more indulgent then it looks becuase it looks lilke a short easy poem, but it actually has meanings.

The first stanza explains that the brain is not just an organ in your body. It shows that the brain is this other world that you can get lost in just like the sky. The sky is never-ending and can travel for miles, just like your brain. Your imagination can stretch as far as u let it, just as u can reach to the stars as high as you want to. The second stanza is describing the depth of the brain. Your brain isn't just a surface that contains nervves of information. Your brain is a deep dark hole, like the sea, that holds an indescribable amount of information and emotions and thoughts. This deep hole and be indulged in when using your creativity and imagination. There is no limit to how far you dig and indulge into these depths of incitment. Your brain absorbs information and then empties it into this cavity of knowledge. This absorbtion is compared to a sponge absorbing water in this stanza.

The third stanza describes the weight and impact of the brain. It compares it to the weight of God. This to me means that the brain has almost the same amount of effect as God has on people. The weight of God is significant and important and so is the necessity of using your brain to think, act, talk, etc. 1204083885

I think that this is a quite interesting poem. She is comparing the brain to many different types of things such as God for example. an interesting fact is that most people only use ten percent of there actual brain power. In the first stanza she is saying how the brain is as wide as the sky. I think she means that if we think we have endless knowledge. Then she says how our brain is deeper than the sea. She is saying that the depth that we can think and know is unbelievable and extraordinary. In the third and final stanza she is comparing the brain to God the Father. God created many things and if we use our imagaination we can to. We as humans paint pictures in our minds that is like a blueprint for our masterpiece. 1204174677

I actually really liked this poem! It is so much easier to understand than all of her other poems. This poem has many very simple and obvious comparisons. In her other poems the comparison is a mystery or you think you know what she is comparing it to but then its a riddle so you have to solve it. But this poems is very short and blunt also it doesn't use many big words that make it even more confusing. In the first stanza she compares the brain to the sky. It says "the one the other will contain with ease" I think this is saying that the brain is capable to hold tons of knowledge and is very vast that it could easily contain the sky. The second stanza compares the brain to the sea. It says "the one the other will absorb as sponges" I also think that this is talking about how your brain can take in or //absorb// lots of facts and how easily the brain can learn things. The third stanza is comparing the brain to the weight of God. This stanza confuses me because first it says to weigh them pound for pound meaning they are the same weight. But then it says they will differ. So im not sure if this stanza is saying they are alike or different. 1204686516