ANALYZING POETRY

ANALYZING POETRY

Analyzing Poetry

Wild Nights- Wild Nights

Dickinson begins this poem with a paradox. If she was with her lover than stormy and wild nights would be their oasis and they treated as a luxury rather than being afraid of it. She uses here a Sea as a metaphor, for passion and traditional one. Narrator didn't shy to describe that as long as she can moor- tonight in her lover. In addition, Dickinson also does not shy from passionate love even if only for single night. In first stanza, narrator uses the subjective case; if she with her lover than night would ...