“I had been hungry all the years” by Emily Dickinson Essay

The poem I had been hungry all the years by Emily Dickinson explores the components interchange of attitude towards diet. This poem can be taken literally or metaphorically and I have chosen to understand it literally.From the beginning of the poem, the persona informs us that she (assuming the persona is a girl) has not eaten fully for quite a while all the years. However, now it is time for her to eat at noon. She takes a rather tentative approach to the table possibly because she is shake that this room that holds the food is too good to be true. Scared that if she exponent make a sudden move, this room might disappear. Other possibilities to wherefore shes trembling might be the anticipation of actually have the food or the fact that shes so hungry that shes physically trembling. Either way, she touches the wine glass cautiously, giving me an impression that she hasnt seen wine before curious.In the second stanza, the persona tells us her thoughts on food. She looks throu gh windows at the tables of food whenever shes turning, hungry, lone. Wealth, in this poem, means two things one being material wealth such as mansion, furniture, and money. The other is food. Looking through a window from the knocked out(p)side, food to her is wealth. From this I deduced that the persona is extremely poor to be out on the streets a roofless person.The third stanza supports the assumption I do in the previous paragraph shared in Natures dining-room. Natures dining-room is the outside world of the streets, where homeless people eat and sleep. Ample bread is so foreign to her that she is in awe and wonder of how large the bread is. The amount of food she eats is of a crumb, similar to the way birds eat pecking at crumbs on the ground.This fourth part stanza is where the change occurs. She has fully eaten for the first time and discovers that the plenty hurts. This is because she/her body is not accustomed to the amount of food she has eaten and thus, the resul t of her feeling feverish and odd. in front she eats as much as the birds do only crumbs notwithstanding her situation of being hungry changes. And this is what makes her realize that food is not as appealing as she once previouslythought. Food is more dainty and wonderful when one is hungry but bland when one is ill and odd (or full).In satisfying her desire for food, she had learnt That hunger was the wayOf persons outside windows,The entering takes away.