Water

This poem is incredibly short, but it has a lot of significance. Emily Dickinson is saying how you learn and grow a deeper understanding of things by making mistakes or through something else. You can't exactly understand happiness unless you've already experienced sadness. It is basically talking about learning from you mistakes and establishing a greater understanding of life itself. The only confusing part of this poem would be the last line. It doesn't really fit with the rest of the poem. The first five lines are talking more about figurative things, but then the last line talks about birds and snow- to very literal things. In my opinion, I think she's referring to the changing seasons because after a harsh winter, the birds start to come back, which signals that spring is coming. She's saying that you can't experience spring unless you have experienced winter. 1204162661

i agree with erica because i think you have to edndure pain before you can truely have and experience happiness. But it is like this for many other things in life, you cannot start being great at a sport right away. You have to practice and experience what it feels like to lose in order to win. I know for a fact that i have to loose a couple of times for things to sink in. For me losing helps me to acheive a goal, because i feel bad for losing and i just want to go out and win. i talked about spring needing winter in one of my other posts. The worse the winter is the better the spring will be to us because it means greater and we appreciate the good whether more. 1204257328