AshleyHoltzer

"Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower? But could never sell." -Emily Dickinson IV

I really liked this poem because I instantly connected and remembered by job working for Johnston the Florist for years. I understand what she means, but saying she will only let a person borrow a flower until the daffodil comes. Daffodils come in the spring, so any flower in between then is sacred; spring is when most beautiful flowers do come up. Its so hard to sell something or give away something you watch grow from the beginning because its so fragile. The much-awaited bloom is like a prize after watering and caring for everyday. Its very difficult when someone comes to you and wants to buy that flower because its like selling your little baby that you'll never see again! Maybe Emily worked at a flower shop too!

"I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea." -Emily Dickinson, XVII

Well, first of all, I had to look up a "moor" was: A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs.. This helped because then I understood the poem in a whole different way! I think Emily is saying that even though she hasn't seen a moor, or a sea, or heaven she knows they exist. Just like when she says,"I never spoke with God", she is implying she believes in God and heaven, even though she's never been in the presence of either. It sounds to me like she is a faithful person who believes in things, whether she was told or read about them.