The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky
poem 632
The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky - meaning Summary
Mind Exceeds Physical Limits
Dickinson asserts the mind's limitless capacity by comparing the brain to the sky, the sea, and even God. Each stanza presents a simple paradox: the brain can encompass the sky, absorb the sea, and weighs as much as God in function if not in substance. The poem insists intellectual and imaginative power surpass physical scale; thought contains, assimilates, and equals what seems vast or divine. Its tone is confident and contemplative, celebrating inward faculties as expansive, porous, and ultimately indispensable to human understanding.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Brain is wider than the Sky For put them side by side The one the other will contain With ease and You beside The Brain is deeper than the sea For hold them Blue to Blue The one the other will absorb As Sponges Buckets do The Brain is just the weight of God For Heft them Pound for Pound And they will differ if they do As Syllable from Sound
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