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In, "I many times thought Peace had come" it talks about how the image of peace can seem so close and that we imagine it with us but in reality it is not there. For example, now we think we may be safe in the U.S. but in reality we are at war in Iraq. People think that they are at peace with themselves when they are not personally in any conflict, but when there is violence in the world there is still no peace. That is what I think Emily Dickinson is trying to communicate to her readers. This poem teaches a lesson that all people should contribute to the health and safety of others so that we can achieve peace.

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I agree with you on this poem. this poems discusses a fact of life that is very true to people right now, but i think is always true in our society. people can feel at peace when in reality they are no where near peace. Like in todays world i don' believe many people actually think about the fact that we are at war, but we are and even thought we all have a feeling of peace its not really peace. Our world is not at peace even though it can feel like it most of the time. There are huge amounts of tension between people, espicially in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The fact that these people are fighting doesn't really affect us and it gives us more of a feeling of peace then what is reality. This also hits on a more personal level, because there are times when you can feel at peace with all your friends and your peers but in reality some of them don't like or at mad at you for something you don't even now about. i think this poem discusses a truth that can hit all people on all different levels. 1205378268

This poem is pretty interesting to me. I think that Emily Dickinson's poems are a lot easier to understand and read if they are shorter. I think that she is talking about war and how she thought that her country/society was finnaly going to have peace when, in all reality, they were far from having peace and that this struggle being discribed was only the beginning of a long, hard war that was apparently taking place in the ocean, too, because she talks a lot about ships and harbors. 1205461958