Explicating a Poem There Is Another Sky

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“There is another sky” is an iambic tetrameter American sonnet written by Emily Dickinson late in the 80s and published in the 90s, which deals with the life of the writer. Dickinson create the poem in a sonnet and an ABCB rhyme scheme as a purpose of being able to work out on her thoughts/ feelings/ desires about her father’s death. Whereas the function of writing it an iambic tetrameter is to make a direct appeal to emotions. This poem describes about Dickinson’s life, whom have a mother, father, a younger sister named Lavinia and a younger brother named Austin. Her father always favored Emily, whereas her mother favored Lavinia. However, both parents favored Austin. On an occasion, Emily’s father’s life was no longer able to be saved. In this poem, Dickenson tries to convey about the place of where her father might be now to Austin. Dickinson claims that beside the sky in the universe, there is an additional sky in existence, in which this “sky” is “ever serene and fair.” She also claims that there is “another sunshine,” which is capable of shining through darkness in this other place. Dickinson then somehow create an address to a person name “Austin” whom happened to be her brother, and tell him to ignore the “faded forests” and “silent fields, because Dickinson wanted to invite her brother to a “little forest”. It refers to “a brighter garden,” which never experiences the killing effects of “frost”, with flowers remain “unfading” and the sound of laughter, “the bright bee hum”, in the most wondrous garden. By this, it may indicate that the function of the poem is a soother. Since the function of the poem is as a soother, therefore, the sound and the diction chosen in the poem must be suitable. Dickinson mostly applied euphony sound in the poem as a purpose of calming down or cheering up. The sense of calming down may be found in most of the stanzas and lines.
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