Dickenson life Our Lives are Swiss

Emily Dickinson was a poet. She was secluded against the world and she wrote a lot of poems in her life. She did not live with people and she was not that friendly. He poem, Our lives are Swiss,So still, so cool, Till, some odd afternoon,The Alps neglect their curtains, And we look farther on.
Italy stands the other side, While, like a guard between,The solemn Alps,The siren Alps, Forever intervene! She is talking about the mountains first off. She uses great imagery to portray the feel and the looking of the mountain. She says the mountains are cold and still. They are cold and still because they are pile of rocks and they can not move. Usually on the tops of mountains, there is snow and where there is snow, it is cold. Dickinson says the Alps are a curtain on the world. It is also a guard against Italy and the rest of the world. She also talks about what is on the sides of the mountains. On one side there is Italy. Italy is a very beautiful country. There are many fountains and life in Italy. Emily is talking about the Alps being a guard because Italy is so pure and she does not want anything to ruin that pureness. She also says that the Alps are siren and solemn. I think she said that because not many people live on the mountains and they are very pretty. When Emily said they were looking on, she means that the people on the other sides of the mountains want to go into Italy and to be pure like they people in Italy are. The title Our Lives are Swiss is very important because Emily is talking about how many holes there are in our life. Swiss Cheese is a type of cheese that has holes in it. Emily is making a parallel to our lives and the holes in the cheese. That's all.