A Thought

In Emily Dickonson's poem A Thought Went Up My Mind Today, she writes about ideas, thoughts, and memories lost. She writes to her readers what she and them share in common with forgotten past. When she say's "A thought went up my mind today that iv'e had before" is when memories in the mind are remebered in fragments. Fragments that one cannot pinpoint in exact time. Dickinson emphasizes this by saying "I could not fix the year". Meaning that she knows her thought has occured to her before, but was stored too far away in her past to determine when. The thought's purpose and origin is now unknown to her. She does not know what stimulated her mind to bring the thought forth from her past. Her thought is too diminished to piece together. She explains this to readers, "Nor defintley, what it was have i the art to say". This means to say that whatever foundation her thought once had no longer matters. Her other thoughts that may have supported this thought now and before are shattered memories in her mind as well. She say's "In my soul, i know i've met the thing before" This can be interpreted that memories so far lost may seem not be a reality, just merely a thought of a false memory you thought you once had. She has to find truth between what she knows and what she feels. What she knows is not clear, but what she feels is she had the thought before.