Poem Analysis I Can Not Live With You - 1352 Words

The poem I Cannot Live With You by Emily Dickinson is a meaningful love poem. It is written as the narrator speaking to a lover. The poem starts off in a strange way by saying living with him â€Å"would be life,† and that life is something â€Å"behind the shelf† (1209). The poem is structured in a way that sort of lists what the speaker cannot do with the lover such as â€Å"live† with him, â€Å"die† with him or even be â€Å"saved† or â€Å"condemned† with him (1210). The entire poem is a complete symbol of a lifetime, and with the use of metaphors it is understood deeper. The Christian belief is that you live, die, resurrection, judgement, salvation, and eternity, which is the pattern Dickinson follows throughout this poem. The poem is an unusually long poem†¦show more content†¦The poem is structured according to the stages of human life as defined by this traditional Christian paradigm: life, death, resurrection, judgment, dam nation/salvation, eternity. Rather than overtly criticize the adequacy of this model for human life, however, the speaker considers the value and â€Å"Sustenance† afforded by this paradigm through an examination of its implications for a love relationship. Within this larger metaphorical structure, the poem incorporates a parallel metaphor of sensory experiences that underscores the speaker’s rejection of both traditional definitions of â€Å"Life† and conventional modes of experiencing and perceiving â€Å"Life†; the speaker invokes images of eating, seeing, hearing, physical proximity, and again, at the end, eating. The first three stanzas employ images associated with eating in order to develop a metaphor for human life as it is traditionally viewed: â€Å"Life† is a piece of â€Å"Porcelain† or a â€Å"Cup† that contains the human spirit for a while until it cracks, breaks, or becomes outmoded (â€Å"Quaint†) and needs to be â€Å"Discarded.† One of the most important devices used in the poem is metaphor, a figure of speech in which one thing is seen in terms of something else. The speaker of the poem uses the language of love—specifically, that of the renunciation of love—as a way of both denouncing and renouncing the traditional paradigm for human life set forth by Christianity. The poemShow MoreRelatedGlimpses of Women in Overalls and Mrs Plum1379 Words   |  6 Pagesassignment an attempt at a detailed analysis of Karen Press’s poem Glimpses of Women in Overalls will be made. 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