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In the poem "I Never Saw A Moor--," Emily Dickenson uses her rendition of the beach to portray her faith in God. There are two refrains in her short poem. The first is about her unfamiliarity with the beach and the second explicates her certitude of God. This poem could be taken metaphorically, as she is comparing never seeing the ocean to never seeing Heaven or God. In the first stanza, she claims that she …

…informatino about both places. This has boosted her imagination so the sea seems real to her and also has given her a certainty about heaven. In the fist verse, she provides a visual image of the beach, using "heather" and "billow" where as, in the second verse, she has no specific, visual expectancies. She is merely "certain" of the "spot" as though she had given the conducter her ticket and was cozily on her way.