THE CONSCIENCE OF EMILY DICKINSON IN “THERE IS ANOTHER SKY”

(It analyzed based on Charles Sanders Pierce Theory)

THERE IS ANOTHER SKY

By Emily Dickinson

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!

SEMIOTICS ANALYSIS

Emily was in sadness. Austin, her brother was died the year that she wrote this poem. Emily spilled her sadness into a poem. In this poem, she motivated herself from the grief. It showed from the she wrote.

“There is another sky,” and ”And there is another sunshine,” explain about another condition. Like Icon  in Charles Sanders Pierce theory. “Sky” represents a condition. Condition that ever change. The colours of the sky always change. Sometimes its colour is blue, and sometime is red. Meaning that, the condition of life always changes. Sometimes it is bad, and sometimes it is good. “Sunshine” is representing the examination or test of life that change the heart condition. Like sunshine that change the colour of sky.

Emily ever has a good condition that is before her brother died. Then she is in bad condition. Austin was died. He was there in another sky with another sunshine. It can be another place except the world. “There is another sky,” and ”And there is another sunshine,” can mean as another place like paradise.

“Though it be darkness there;” Emily’s mean, even she was in “darkness” or sadness, “Never mind faded forests, Austin,” then line four until twelve showed something good. Like Charles’Index.  Those lines indicate Emily’s motivation on sadness.

In a fact Emily still need her brother like in thirteenth and fourteenth line; “Prithee, my brother,” and “Into my garden come!” The punctuation mark is declare Emily’s satisfaction. After all of lines before it use comma. Hence she was spilled her sadness.