Final Harvest

Final Harvest
In Dickinson's Final Harvest, there are several themes throughout each of her poems. In the poems, "The Brain - is wider than the Sky-"(161) and "I felt a cleaving in my mind,"(not in the book) one main theme that is similar in both of these poems is the "mind." However, there is a contradiction. In the first poem, the speaker is saying that the mind is so big that it can "contain" such things as the sky and the ocean. In the second poem, the speaker is almost lost because she cannot collect her thoughts. The contradiction is that the mind can comprehend all things but th…