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Emily Dickinson describes the soul in this poem. The poem is called, "The Soul has Bandaged moment--." In this poem Emily Dickinson says that if you do bad things then your soul can be bandaged and eventually healed as long as the bad things you do are not felonies. God is always watching you so no matter what you do you can't keep anything secret from him. The lesson of this poem is to keep a clean record and think about what you do before you do it. Some things may seem fun for the moment but later in life they don't seem so funny. Cuts can be damaged and then repaired but scars don't heal.

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In the first line in the poem "The Soul has Bandaged moments --" kind of gave me a simple outline of what the poem was about. I construed this first line to mean - there is always a time in every person’s life where something is not 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 feeling affect the way a person acts. A couple more lines down, the word fright is brought up. My last contemplation as to what Dickinson was really trying to get across to the person who reads was that fear affects the soul. That the idea of fear is not just mental and does not just have an effect on a person mentally, but also has a finishing influence on them actually. The bodily consequence such as the chilly and shocking state and goose bumps is an example of fright having an effect on a person physically. These ideas can affect a person immensely. 1205462557