In class writing based on "Nature is what we see"

  The poem is consist of one stanza with 12 lines. It's relatively short but really meaningful. Dickinson listed a lot of different things in nature in the poem, such as the hill, the afternoon, the squirrel. She also used three repeating similar sentences as main arguments: "Nature" is what we see; Nay—Nature is Heaven—Nature is what we hear; Nay—Nature is Harmony—Nature is what we know. These sentences kind of repeal each other but explain the general idea of what nature is in different perspective, with the help of listed natural things below each. The rhyme(words) of the poem appears randomly at the end of a few sentences, such as "see", "bee", "sea", "harmony" and most importantly at the end - "simplicity". Speaking of simplicity, the poem gives her perspective to the power of nature at the end: "So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity". She truly believes that the nature has such great power, existing everywhere and has sensational effect on human beings. None of us can overpower the nature even though it's such "simplicity". Among the examples of what she listed in the poem, things tend to be everywhere: "thunder", "sea", "bumble bee". She tried to use the diversity of things to explain how nature exists everywhere in our lives. In additional, we can tell that Dickinson really appreciates the beauty of the nature by the terms: "heaven", "harmony". Lastly, she used "her" instead of "it", to describe the nature in the last sentence. This method of personification to gives nature(of her perspective) a basic characteristic and provides a more vivid scene.