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Ravi A
(7/28/2009 10:51:00 AM) |
Faith is a fine concept so long as it supports life, so long as life remains peaceful with it, but when testing time comes, we are thrown out of board. This is the usual situation. When she says that Microscopes are prudent in an emergency, she means that logical reasoning is a better tool in times when we are doubtful of our own faith. Faith cannot be logically concluded and so we may miss the truth. According to her, Faith is a fine invention of man and not a natural aspect of human heart. In other words she indirectly says that faith is something that is enforced by church or something of that kind and nothing else. It is not the natural way of heart. Only logical reasoning can save this world. A good idea.
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Adam Sobh
(4/10/2009 11:49:00 AM) |
I'm doing a project on Emily Dickinson for my 11th grade American Literature class, and i need to find a poem by Miss Emily Dickinson and then analyze it, i chose this poem, but i don't really understand it, so if anybody could please explain it to me and help me to better understand it, i would be extremely grateful.
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Ashish Dimri
(3/8/2009 1:02:00 AM) |
Dear Poem hunter,
Emily is a natural poet.
As her biography explains, she hardly paid attention to grammar but content or poetic flow!
yours,
ashish dimri
India
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Ismael Rivera
(3/5/2009 3:22:00 PM) |
The 'gentlemen' is simply saying man as a whole, so in other words, people. It's basically saying that faith is the simple understanding and science is the detailed or specific understanding of life. A very powerful statement especially for her time, since religion had such a strong grip on humanity. A very true and very daringly honest point. Shows a very special mind performing the most beautiful act known; thought.
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Erika Maple
(2/24/2009 7:51:00 PM) |
please replie to this what can i include in my poems to make them better?
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Kevin Straw
(1/3/2009 6:34:00 AM) |
I don't like this poem. I suppose it means faith and science are not incompatible. But who are the 'Gentlemen'. There's a kind of tittering behind the hand about it. And the rhythm is a bit Christmas-crackerish. Not one of ED's best.
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Ismael Rivera
(7/16/2008 2:24:00 PM) |
Faith is good, when people don't need to analyze, when they want to take the world for what they understand, but when there is an actual need, where an action must be taken, an emergency for example, just plain sight(faith) won't be of as much help as a microscope(logic) , so therefore if you rely on 'Faith' to heal a bleeding wound, or broken bone, you'd be in bad shape, faith is good, but not when there is need.
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, aryaindia
(7/15/2008 5:39:00 AM) |
I am mystified by this keen observation and its fullest understanding is when you realize the greatness of the thought behind those few lines. It declares that certain things have to be analyzed logically and faith is only a part. Just so wise and prudent.
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Rakeem 'Voice in Poetry' Person
(6/3/2008 9:46:00 PM) |
this is so true. when it comes to 'right now' knowledge ppl depend more on science but when things look promising they leave it to faith. The key is to have faith 'in an emergency'.
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