Emily Dickinson's If You Were Coming In The Fall

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Poems are like snowflakes. While no two are the same, they all have common structures and themes. One prevalent theme in poetry is that of death, which is present in both “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost. Dickinson perceives death as a gentleman, while Frost perceives death as loneliness, which provides insight on how the time periods of the poems, the genders of the authors, and the authors’ personal experiences influence literature.

In line eight Dickinson also alludes to a “King.” An interpretation of this can be an allusion to God, coming down from Heaven and taking Dickinson with Him. In the third stanza she illustrates the temporary nature of the world. She gives away her belongings and is ready to leave her time

Most people depend on their sight to guide their path, but what if they lose their sense of sight? What would they do? Emily Dickinson’s vision grew poorer and poorer as she aged due to writing poems in the dim light of the night. She wrote two poems related to sight, but there was a much deeper meaning to the both of them. Sometimes people with the ability of sight are blinded as to someone who is blind can see clearly. People can not always depend on their eyes to lead their path in life.They have to open their soul to lead the way.

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“If You Were Coming in the Fall” is a fascinating poem written by Emily Dickinson around the 1860’s. Many images and messages are skillfully woven in this classic piece of literature. Throughout the poem, Emily Dickinson employs an abundance of figurative language to create an image of a woman desperately waiting for her lover’s return. To better understand the poem, it would behoove one to first understand the author. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts and had an introverted personality. She rarely left the vicinity of her home and very few people visited her. However, despite not having many guests, every person that visited her impacted her life. Some of her visitors were men and, needless to say, she

In some instances within literature, writers surprise readers by incorporating ideas that the reader may or may not expect. Within Emily Dickinson’s poem “I heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”, readers are introduced to a ghostly speaker that discusses the scene of their deathbed. Readers are exposed to many surprises throughout various aspects of the poem.

In the poem, the speaker asks questions about the “Morning.” In the first stanza, she asks “Will there really be a ‘Morning?’ Is there such a thing as ‘Day?’ Could I see it from the mountains if I were as tall as they?” Dickinson sounds like she has a doubt or worry regarding heaven or God.

The poem that I have chosen to analyse is I Died for Beauty—but was Scarce by Emily Dickinson. This poem is one of Emily Dickinson’s most well-known poems and it only includes 12 lines and 3 stanzas. It is an allegorical and metaphorical piece of work that portrays the speaker who died for ‘Beauty’ while the man beside gave up his life for ‘Truth’. This simple and straightforward poem, written in first person, mainly explores the theme death but then also shows beauty and truth through Dickinson’s choice of words. Although this poem is daunting and frightening, it is also definitely fascinating and truthful.

“Nobody’s saying this will be easy. The important things never are,” (Fagan 14). Gun control is among one of the most disputed issues in the United States. Different views collide with each other and split our nation into two sides; those who support gun control, and those who don't. The United States should implement stricter gun control laws, because: the rate of death has increased drastically, guns increase violence, and mass shootings are at an all-time high.

Emily Dickinson a modern romantic writer, whose poems considered imaginative and natural, but also dark as she uses death as the main theme many times in her writings. She made the death look natural and painless since she wanted the reader to look for what after death and not be stuck in that single moment. In her poems imagination play a big role as it sets the ground for everything to unfold in a magical way. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. She turned increasingly to this style that came to define her writing. The poems are rich in aphorism and dense

Poetry is regarded as a way for people to express how they feel without outright saying how they are feeling. It is unique because it allows authors to express their feelings in a way that they want to through the use of things like figurative language and literary devices. Emily Dickinson uses many different poetic devices in her works to help convey her themes. In her poem “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close,” Dickinson discusses that fact that her life has already metaphorically closed twice before. This is most likely a reference to the two past lovers that she had. Her experience with unrequited love inspired her to write this poem, and we can infer the theme through her use of different literary devices and figurative language that she uses in her poem. Adding to the theme of unrequited love, Dickinson also wrote her poem “If You were Coming In The Fall” to discuss the fact that she doesn’t know when her lover will return to her. This can be in reference to the fact that she lost both of the people that she cared about most. Most likely this poem is in reference to her lover that was married and then died. Through the use of poetic elements, we can draw conclusions like these to understand her goal in writing this poem. In comparing Emily Dickinson’s “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” and “If You Were Coming In The Fall” the common theme of unrequited love is portrayed differently in the two poems by using different poetic devices to convey the theme.

American Romanticism was during the 1800s. It brought ideas of individuality, creativity, and imagination to society. American Romantic poems were interesting ones, and they impacted lots of poets in that period of time. Emily Dickinson was a poet around 1830s. Her poems had a big effect to society in that time, her poems usually discuss death, love, nature, beauty, God, and knowledge. Death and Loss is one of the themes that Emily Dickinson commonly wrote about. “If I were coming in the Fall” and “Because I could not stop for death” were well-known poems with that theme. Emily expresses her inner thoughts of death and loss in different ways, as in some poems she was hopeless, constantly waiting for her love, but he never came, and in other poems she explains how Death came to her, as she showed hints of hope, even though Death was really closeted. Through those poems, she can express herself through her words.

This poem is written in ballad form which is odd because one would think of a ballad and think a love story or an author gushing on about nature not an allegory about personified Death. Dickinson both unites and contrasts love/courtship with death, experimenting with both reader’s expectations and the poetic convention dictating specific poem form. This is why Dickinson is widely hailed because of her unconventional writing methods.

Emily Dickinson was an American poet born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. It was only upon her death on May 15, 1886 that her family discovered thousands of her poems. One of her most prolific piece of work is “Because I could not stop for death” published in 1860 the poem uses personification, symbols and metaphors to highlight her concern and point of view on death as well as life. In the poem, Dickinson speaks about death in a blithe way setting the overall tone in a calm manner. The poem uses imagery and her ironic tone to give the message that death should not be feared, but instead one should make the best out of life.