"Eden is that old-fashioned House"
One of the similarities that stand out most to me between the events that transpired in Genesis and the ones of Emily Dickinson’s poem is the sense of naiveness and innocence, and how quickly those feelings are lost in both stories. Dickinson references the blind familiarity one feels in their place of living if they never leave, and how they live “. . . without suspecting [their] abode.” It is true that if someone has one ever known only one environment then they have no others to compare it to, and thus are unaware of the blessings or dangers they may experience in this one environment; they lack the knowledge of these positive or negative parts of life, and live in their own bubble of unawareness and naivety. Additionally, after the narrator's departure from her home, she tells listeners she can “. . . discover it no more,” referring to how once one has left a place, they cannot ever experience it the way they did the very first time. Other parts of life they encounter continu...