Eden is that old-fashioned House
In the poem "Eden is that old-fashioned House", Emily Dickinson discusses the similarities between leaving the comforts of a nostalgic, "old-fashioned" house and the perils Adam and Eve faced after being banished out of the garden of Eden. She describes Eden as a place where they are sheltered from the rest of the world, unaware of good and evil. By drawing this comparison, she is able to highlight how they are able to live in ignorance of the issues they would otherwise face in the outside world. Dickinson does this by referring to it as an "old-fashioned house" which elicits a feeling of comfort and security. Perhaps the best example of Adam and Eve being unsuspecting of their garden home is the speed with which they eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. By saying "Unconscious our returning,/But discover it no more" Dickinson is referring to how after eating the fruit and gaining the knowledge of what good and evil are,...