A Wounded Deer...by Emily Dickinson

A wounded cervid leaps highest is a poem write by Emily Dickinson. The literal assailable of the poem is the story of a wounded deer from a hunter, hence the title of the poem. The intend purpose of this poem is to devote a message to the audience, a particular message or so pain and suffering. Such asseverate comes from the enjoyment of vocabulary at bottom the peom such as, wounded deer (1), hit rock (5), and trampled make (6) that suggest a mannequin of injury and abuse. Congruent to the aforementioned(prenominal) evidence to the poems purpose, the predominant atm of the poem is omnious. Provided that the vocabulary utilise in the peom are nigh wounds, death, and anguish, the atmosphere of the poem is arguably one that of a darker mood. The power uses juxtaposition of allegorys to communicate the concept of a universal appraisal that all things react in a pretense of normality, notwithstanding liveliness to pain and suffering.\nThe maiden example of this me taphorical juxtaposition appears in the very premier line, A wounded deer leaps highest (1), meaning that the deer seems to be in the best actor whilst it is hurt. Then it is explained that it is only a facade, T is but the ecstay of death, / And then the halt is still representing the message of the former: the universal concept of turned pretense. The ecstasy of death is the metaphor of the facade, and brake on the adjoining line meaning the suffering, creating juxtaposition of the first stanza.\nThe second stanza is where the fountain had portrayed the universality of the opus through her metaphorical use of inanimate elements such as rocks, steel, and a disease.\nThe line The smitten rock that gushes seems to be a biblical allusion of Moses, when upon striking a rock, water gushed out to translate water for the Israelites. The rock in its ecstasy of death gushes out water, and water being a symbol for life, is a metaphorical paradox against the verb, smitten, an follo w up for physical harm. The next ...