The poem " The wind begun to rock the grass " by Emily Dickinson is a great portrait of all the beauties and havoc attached with the nature.

1. CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF “THE
WIND BEGUN TO ROCK THE GRASS”
Emily Dickinson

2. Why did poet choose this poem?
• Her solitary nature found peace in the
imaginative realm of gardens, flowers and
natural landscape.
• However, her life long fascination with
death and morbidity forced her to write
such verses.

3. What does she want to explain in the poem?
• Emily views nature as an imminent danger to life as she
describes what happens during and after a storm.
• After the havoc and destruction caused by the storm, Dickinson
also portraits that a heavenly being saved her father’s house.
• In depth, she makes us realize that life is full of surprises and
difficulties. These troubles comes in a row, one after the other.
• But we should be hopeful as we will always be looked after by
God.
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4. What is structure and form of poem?
• Structure : The original version of the poem was in one
stanza but its edited version was divided into five stanzas of
four lines. The extensive use of unconventional
capitalization of alphabets and her way of comparing and
contrasting abstract ideas with concrete images is
unmatchable. Dickinson avoided pentameter.
• Form: This is a pastoral poem and a free verse poem.
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5. Devices used in the poem
Meter: The meter of our poem is lambic tetrameter alternating with lambic trimeter every other line.
Capitalization: It occurs at the beginning of every line.
Personal pronouns:
 In the first stanza he refers to the storm.
 In the second stanza themselves refers to the leaves.
 In the fifth stanza my refers to the Emily Dickson or whoever is in the poem.
Symbolism:
 This entire poem is supposed to symbolize a storm.
 In the first stanza a menace is also supposed to symbolize the storm and strong winds.
Personification: It has one big personification such as 'The dust scooped it self like hands'.
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6. Language used in the poem
Unknown words:
• Livid_ furiously angry
• Quartering_divide into four equal or corresponding parts.
Poem classification:
• This poem is classified under the types of free verse .
Our poem doesn’t contain:
• A formal rhyme scheme
• Repetition
Figurative language:
• The entire poem is figurative language.It has one of the biggest
personification such as 'The dust scooped it self like hands’.
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7. Interpretations of the poem
• This version opens' The wind began to rock the grass' and describes the
chaos that a storm wrecks upon the world.
• It is one of the best works of Emily Dickson who used various
descriptions and elements to bring about a piece of art.
• The poem was based on nature.
• The poet described a pre setting of the rain which moving winds and
grass is seen.
• The poem tells a story of a storm happening near a farm.The poet paints
a picture with the poem using imagery and personification.
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8. Theme
• The theme of nature takes the place of humanity.
• Quite many of Dickinson’s poems uses nature as metaphors
for qualities of humanity ,as well as animal qualities have
been attributed to the theme of nature such as leaves having
the strength humanity or wind having gender such a being a
male.
• Emily views nature as an imminent danger as well.
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9. Conclusion
• The poem tells a story of a storm happening on or near the farm.
• Dickinson paints a picture of the poem using imagery and
personification.
• Editors have edited and changed certain things from the original poem
to make it better.
• But they have changed the original intent of the poem which is that
storm was not doing things to certain objects; the object were doing
things to themselves to hide from the storm.
• These edits that certain editors have made to Emily Dickinson’s work of
poetry have largely been disputed and scrutinized.
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10. Significance
• The poem talks about failure and achieving a goal.
• In this poem the darkness surrounding a man represents a place where
he could go if he fails.
• The light however and following the path of light would bring the person
to his goal and success.
• The poem convey an idea that failure is bad and sucks. But when a
person wins or achieve the goal that he has set for himself.
• He will be full of happiness and this sudden feel of success is
overwhelming.
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