i need help with emily dickenson's poem "i never saw a moor"?

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First of all what type of poem is this. like a sonnet or ballad etc? and the meter. i also need help on the stylistic devices. what kinds of allusions are used? are there word play? ARe there any assonance or consance? i found alliteration such as "billow be" but ii cant see any more which im sure there are and allso how do the sound created by the words in the devices have an effect on the reader? like for example "billow be" creates a fluffy and large feeling which descibe the wave. please help

Answer 1

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I Never Saw A Moor - by Emily Dickinson.

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I never saw a Moor—
I never saw the Sea—
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.

I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven—
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given—


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- It is not a sonnet.
- This analysis by Chris might help:

In her poem “I Never Saw a Moor” Emily Dickinson uses a comparison to explain her religious beliefs. She says in the first two lines of the poem that she has never seen a moor, and she has never seen the see. In the following two lines she says that she knows that both exists, and she knows “how the heather looks,/ And what a wave must be.” This first stanza essentially states the old axiom that “just because you have never seen a thing does not mean it does not exist.” Having laid that foundation, Dickinson goes on to say in her second stanza that she has never spoken with God and that she has never seen heaven. She then says that she is as certain that heaven exists as if she had a map with heaven on it. The logic of the first stanza prepared the reader for the assertion of her belief Dickinson makes in the second stanza. In other words, the poem is a type of syllogism. The first stanza makes an assumption most reasonable people would make on the basis of logic. Dickinson then intends to show the reader that her belief in God and heaven are equally logical to reasonable people. People who have never seen the ocean are willing to assume that waves exist and believe that they know what waves look like. Therefore, the poem asserts, it is logical that Dickinson should not only reasonable believe in God and heaven, but it is also reasonable for her to believe that she knows what the voice of God sounds like and what heaven looks like. She is able to believe in heaven in a manner as concrete as those who have never seen the sea are able to believe in waves. She also has enough reasonable information from various sources, such as the Bible, to imagine what heaven and God are like just as she is able to infer the appearance of heather and waves from second-hand information.


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Answer 2

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i need help with emily dickenson's poem "i never saw a moor"?
First of all what type of poem is this. like a sonnet or ballad etc? and the meter. i also need help on the stylistic devices. what kinds of allusions are used? are there word play? ARe there any assonance or consance? i found alliteration such as "billow be" but ii cant see any more...

Answer 3

I Never Saw A Moor

Answer 4

this poem is about faith