The Brain—is wider than the Sky— Analysis

That Emily Dickinson sure knew how to whip out a tidy little poem. This one is yet another great example of just how carefully crafted her poetry is. "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—" is divid...

The speaker of the poem doesn't tell us a lot about herself. But—and this is a big but—we can tell a lot about her general philosophy through this poem. One thing we know for sure is that she's...

The poem doesn't take place in a specific setting, but it does manage to put us in a pretty surreal space. It's kind of like the whole thing takes place in some kind of Salvador Dalí designed alte...

Regular rhyme scheme aside, Dickinson doesn't get too crazy with the sound games in this poem. (For more on the rhymes, check out "Form and Meter.") She does slip in some pretty slick assonance in...

Ha. Fooled you. This poem has no title. Sorry to disappoint, dear Shmoopers.Actually, none of Dickinson's poems have titles. One reason is that she never intended to publish most of them. This is n...

This poem shows off all of Emily Dickinson usual quirks. For one, you've got her idiosyncratic use of capitalization, which basically means that she chose to capitalize whatever words she wanted, w...

This poem's a total walk in the park. Some folks have even said that it's one of the easiest Dickinson poems to understand.

Dickinson's little sister was named Lavinia. Like her sister, Lavinia also lived in relative seclusion and isolation at home. Lavinia's also the one who made it her mission to get Emily's poems pub...

Nope, no sex in this poem whatsoever. What. So. Ever.