Darkness and Nighttime
In the first line of the poem, the darkness is something that we are already growing “accustomed” to. Seems like we’ve been hanging out in the dark for awhile, then. Later on, in line 7, we...
Vision
If darkness is a metaphor for the uncertain, then our sight is a metaphor for how we react to this uncertainty. At the beginning of the poem, Dickinson asserts that we can get used to uncertainty t...
The Road
A road diverges in the middle of the poem (Frost, much?) but it’s kinda too dark to see it, at least at first. Eventually, we are able to meet the road; in line 8, we “meet the road” and are...
The Tree
Some brave folks don’t balk at a new situation, but continue on and face it. In line 14, she acknowledges that sometimes those that run out into the dark might accidentally run smack into a tree....