Emily+Dickinson-I+died+for+beauty

died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth,--the two are one; We brethren are," he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

I died for Beauty, is a poem by Emily Dickinson. Erika found it online and posted it a while ago and when I went to reply the page was counted and locked. So here is my response to this poem. I enjoyed reading it. It is similar to the ones that we read in class because (as you can tell from the title) it is about death. Death is a topic that Emily Dickinson writes about a lot. In this poem there are two people who are dead. They are in coffins next to each other, one died for beauty and one died for truth. These two are talking and in the second stanza they say something about how truth and beauty are one. I think this means that you have beauty from truth because when you tell the truth your inner beauty shows. And when we lie we are not beautiful. This poem is important and has a great lesson. This poem tells us that beauty doesn't just come from the outside, it comes from the inside. If we treat everyone with respect and life a truthful life we will be beautiful. This is one of the reasons that I liked this poem. It was fun to read and it was easy to understand. 1205357711

This poem relates that dying for beauty and dying for truth are the same thing. I disagree with this, i think dying for the truth is a much nobler cause. I am not sure how one could die for beauty. I have never heard of anything beautiful that can kill you, (except for poisonous flowers)/ Even after these two died for different reasons they become friends in the tomb. This relates the idea that we can meet friends in places we dont expect. mme

I agree with mme that this poem relates dying for beauty and dying for the truth is the same thing. Personally I don't think that they are the same. if you die for beauty that's just really shallow, I'm not sure what she means by dying for beauty but when I hear that I think of someone that has died because they tried to do something dangerous to improve their outer image like take a bunch of diet pills, and that’s just wrong. Dying for truth is very different. When I hear dying for truth I think of someone dying because they were trying to do something good. I just think that this poem is wrong and that dying for beauty and dying for truth are totally different things. 1205457234

Emily Dickinson said in this poem she died for beauty. And the one who died for truth was laying in the room next to her. When asked, she said the two are the same, which is very true. Your internal beauty is the truth of who you are. The two go hand-in-hand, and when your internal beauty is shown by the truths around you, nothing else matters, and you are free to be yourself. 1205469729