Emily Bronte’s poem “Spellbound”

Emily Brontes poem, Spellbound, is evocative and emotive. Its imagery, saturating nature with natural emotions, is unforgettable. In dissecting the poem, truly examining it for its constituent parts, one is struck by the dictation with which Bronte is able to manipulate individual words and have them gush with emotions, put forward up images in the readers head effortlessly. In the end, Brontes nature is painted as a canvass of entrapment, a gallant masterpiece of beauty that ensnares her imagination but paralyzes her body and soul. Brontes origin stanza establishes this motif early.Natures prominence in the poem is unmistakable as she cites the power of the night as it envelopes her. Adding to this sense experience of encirclement is the wild quality ascribed to the winds, blowing relentlessly. The combination of these two sentiments creates a strong sense of the ungovernable cite of nature night darkens and cannot be stopped, wild winds cannot be tamed. This sense is unac companied heightened in the next line as Bronte ascribes a tyrannical part to these forces, binding hera clear link between the burden of uncontrollable nature and her own sense of paralysis.She explicitly describes this sense of immobility in the final line of the stanza saying, I cannot, cannot go. Thus, in the freshman stanza, Bronte is clearly hypnotised by nature, but eventually overpowered and immobilized by its unyielding power. In the warrant stanza, Bronte elaborates on the force of nature, ascribing an empty, lifeless quality to it that simultaneously evokes a sense of momentous serenity. The giant trees continue the large scale already created by the night enveloping her and the untamed wind. Yet those trees, like Bronte are burdened, held mastered by snowperhaps an allusion to her own feeling of sagging.The sense of an sick future is heightened even further with her description of a storm lush descending, as she reaffirms her paralysis, again saying that she cann ot go. In the third and final stanza, Bronte ties the first two stanzas together. In describing clouds beyond clouds, and wastes beyond wastes, she reaffirms the crushing endlessness of nature and ties it to her hopelessness. If the orbit is so large, she feels small this sentiment perhaps the source of her unmotivated lethargy. Together, the stanzas summarize up to a message that underscores the power of nature while too highlighting the sagging weight of its enormity.