Final Harvest In Dickinson's Final Harvest, there are several themes throughout each of her poems. In the poems, "The Brain - is wider than the Sky-"(161) and "I felt a cleaving in my mind,"(not in the book) one main theme that is similar in both of these poems is the "mind." However, there is a contradiction. In the first poem, the speaker is saying that the mind is so big that it can "contain" …showed first 75 words of 944 total…

…showed last 75 words of 944 total…disease, stress, worry, or other things that cause anxiety to a person. I do believe that the mind is one of the strongest tools that man has and it can absorb all types of information. But I do think that the speaker in the first poem is overestimating the mind because there are several things that the mind cannot comprehend and the greatest example of that is from the first poem. That example is god.