gbEmily+Dickinson's+Higher+Purpose

To start off I would like to say that this poem was probably one of the hardest poems for me to figure out. I think that while writing the higher purposes you have to have general idea of what the poem means, and this one took me a while to figure out. I actually choose Emily Dickinson because her poems take me a while to process and think about. I think, this is kind of a vague guess, but that maybe while writing "Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's Better", Emily Dickinson had a fear. She might have had a fear of not waking up again. She might have thought that if she dreamed, she wouldn't wake up again. At the end of her poem it says, "Than a Solid Dawn -- confronting -- Leading to no Day." After I looked up the precise definition of confront, I found that is means to be face to face with so and so. So in the poem, when Emily Dickinson wrote "confronting -- Leading to no Day." I guessed that it meant to be face to face with no new day, so to be face to face with death. Overall Emily Dickinson, I think was in a way scared to dream because she thought it wouldn't lead to the morning, and that when she dreams, she won't wake up again.