If I can stop one heart from breaking, Analysis

Author: Poetry of Emily Dickinson Type: Poetry Views: 1335

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

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.: the robin in the poem :.

the robin is a bird (robin;species of bird) ,thus the presence of the nest in the following stanza. may represent views of freedom (flying free like a bird) from pain. or it may symbolize how the bird is high in the sky ( high as in an emotional high from love) and then it suddenly faints and it is leading nowhere but downwards into the ground (down=failure, unhapiness etc). so to put the bird back in its nest is to relieve it from such a pain.

| Posted on 2008-06-09 | by a guest

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This was a really nice peace can any1 tell me (for a homework assignment) who emily speeks to in this poem, (audience or reader)

| Posted on 2008-03-26 | by a guest

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This peice is simply saying that in ameliorating anothers life, ours will also improve. In questioning the purpose of life she has found that it is to touch the soul of another. She views her life until now as void and upon reviewing, surmises that to make anothers life a little brighter will enhance her own.
She suggest that she has felt the pain herself, because she has a desire to prevent it infecting others. "one fainting robin
Unto his nest again," is simply imagery for a desperate fellow in need of aid.

| Posted on 2005-10-02 | by Approved Guest

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She's trying to make a point, that her life wasn't as she wanted it to be. She wanted to help people, make herself feel worthy of her way of life. She was a lucky child, rich and all.Atleast she had money to eat, and grow up right maybe she's offering to return what the world gave to her.She just wants to feel like she mattered even if she only saved one soul, or helped one person.Atleast she made an impact on someone,animal, or person.Well, atleast that's the way I see it.
JSG~

| Posted on 2004-10-22 | by joel_s_gurlie

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Here's how I see it.Emily here feels unjust, like her life holds no meaning whatsoever, so she speaks of helping someone.Even if just the smallest deed is done to help someone, she would feel needed, feel important. She wanted to tell the world, that if they ever needed help, she'd be there.She wanted to say, that she'd be willing to help, and as she was helping someone else, she was helping herself.By making her life seem as specail as it was, even if she didn't see.She lived a remarkable life, and her spirit was kind.All she wanted to do was help, and that's wahst she's trying to say.

| Posted on 2004-10-20 | by camoflage

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