English Yuvakbharati 11th Standard
Maharashtra State Board
SECTION 2: Poetry
2.3 There is Another Sky by Emily Dickinson
(A1) (i) Imagine your younger sister is not paying attention to her studies and is seen wasting time playing games on her cell-phone. Suggest some ways that will help her to concentrate on her studies and overcome her bad habit.
Ans : Hey, Amruta, you are not paying attention to your study . It’s a bad habit to play games on cellphone. You should keep in mind that it makes one lazy for everything and busy for nothing. You should be crazy for books. Work hard to be Lord.
(ii) You have noticed that many of your classmates are not interested in outdoor games or participating in co-curricular activities. Discuss some ways in which they will be encouraged to participate in activities.
Ans: The College should organise outdoor games. Participation in at least two activities should be made compulsory. Winners should get reward and certificate. The certificate should have weightage in the exam.
(iii) The poet encourages her brother in the second part of the poem by telling him about the brighter side of life. Discuss with your partner and make a list of the expressions in the poem that mean encouragement.
(a) Brighter garden
(b) unfading flower
(c) bright bee hum
(iii) The poet has described two different shades of human feelings by using imagery of various forces of Nature in the poem. Pick out the terms or phrases that describe them. Complete the table given below. One is done for you.
(A4) ‘I hear the bright bee hum.’ The poet has used the word ‘hum’ that indicates the sound made by the bee. This is an example of Onomatopoeia. The poet has used different figures of speech like alliteration, inversion and hyperbole in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines accordingly.
(a) Hyperbole – In its unfading flowers
(b) Alliteration – bright bee, faded forest
(c) Inversion – into my garden come
Appreciation
2.3 There is Another Sky by Emily Dickinson
“There is Another Sky” is a sonnet that depicts the beauty of nature itself in her described “Garden of Eden” as many call it. However, the poem was written in conjunction with a letter the writer sent to her brother pleading him to come back home. She would give anything for him to come back.
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields –
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!
“There is Another Sky”
In the poem, “There is Another Sky”, Emily Dickinson tries to convince Austin, who is her brother, to come back from Boston to Amherst. Contextually progressing, she tells her brother stories of “home”. The first line of the poem itself “There is another sky” is a metaphor towards expressing “There is another place for you”.
As per the context, Amherst is just another geographical location yet in her poem, it begets a celestial depiction comparable with the “Garden of Eden” where sunshine never fades and leaves are always green. She wanted to portray the idea of home as something special. No matter what changes around home, home will always be home. Emily, being the loving sister, wanted her brother to know that in Boston there might be darkness and the flowers may wither, but “here” there is always sunshine and the flowers are forever blooming in her garden. “Here”, as per context, means Amherst or their home, however, it could also mean her being the heart of their home. The writer expresses the unorthodox amount of love she has towards her brother in this poem, and because she loved him, she wanted him to be happy and this garden of hers serves that very purpose. Austin might be living very jolly but there are bound to be sad moments. Emily loves him so much that she wants even those sad moments to completely disappear. Living under a light that never fades is just her way of expressing her undying love for him.The poem ends with “Into my garden come!” sending out an invitation to her brother and reminding that their home will always be his home. However, the nature of the poem allows it to be interpreted in another manner where Emily is describing herself to her brother. But, regardless of interpretation, it is still an invitation sent to her brother, Austin, to come back home.
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