I need to write an analysis of her poem. Please help!?

Question

THE SECRET.
by Emily Dickinson

Some things that fly there be, --
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Of these no elegy.

Some things that stay there be, --
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this behooveth me.

There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies!

Poems by Emily Dickinson
Life

Answer 1

Note the poem is not THE SECRET.

In various of Emily Dickinson's poems we encounter a fine intuition in this direction, even if not in the form of deliberate psychological contemplation, then nonetheless as every sign of a developed disposition. The introspective poems predominate within the genre that we could term psychological, which is understandable given her introversion and solitariness of character.
Splitting into three is one of her favorite themes, but here it also embraces the entire internal structure: the number of lines of each verse, the number of feet in each line, the number of examples of each thesis and antithesis. Such an ‘inschachtelung’ assures the poem of its closed, organic unity. This is one of the most convincing specimens of her art: the poem's threefold sentences standing apart like epitaphs, forming a repeated incantation:
Some things - hours, birds, bees - fly
Some things - grief, hills, eternity - rest still
Those are two sets of things juxtaposed: Those that fly fast and those who remain still. The elegy will not be sung for those flying past but for those remaining still
Emily wonders about the riddle that lies still in the context of these sky-bound aspects!
The poem is about grief, eternity and human existential riddle of humankind - her major themes in most poems.

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