The form used by Emily Dickinson gives this poem a layer of sadness, ut also a distance from the feelings of the poem.
Explanation:
The poem ''We grow accustomed to the dark” is written by Emily Dickinson whose unusual style innovative use of phrases and punctuation are very much a part of her poetic language as much as her own words.
This poem too is no different as the hyphens here do not really connect the lines together as much as create and uncomfortable distance.
The poem says that the people who are accustomed to dark have also found themselves so dejected they are now almost at a distance from their feelings.
We have friends like Brutus, they are called two faced. He's a patriot because he he killed Caesar for the good of Rome and then when he lost and felt like he did all that he could do for Rome, he killed himself (he died for Rome).
