Emily Dickinson's If You Were Coming In The Fall

“If You Were Coming in the Fall”, is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson wrote a a lot about love. Dickinson fell in love with an unknown person when she was in her early twenties. Unfortunately, Edward Dickinson did not approve of Emily's unknown lover. Later on in Dickinson's life, she began to fall in love with a man named Otis Lord. Dickinson and Lord wrote each other constantly. Dickinson refused Lord's marriage proposal, but they continued to write to each other. Emily Dickinson's, “If You Were Coming in the Fall”, portrays a theme of love and time, a tone of distress, and a certain purpose.

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.

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.

In Dickinson’s poem, Eden, characterized as a place of holiness, warmth, and comfort, becomes “that old-fashioned house” (Dickinson 1). Her word choice gives the sense that Eden is a place of comfort and warmth similar to how old-fashioned house would be. She then goes on to say how the residents of the home “sauntered from the Door, Unconscious their returning, But discover it no more” (Dickinson 6-8). These three lines show a dramatic change of tone in writing, as it goes from a sense of being relaxed while walking out of “Eden”, to a sense of fear and anxiousness in order to return to “Eden”. To my understanding, the poem provides the allusion that “Dickinson’s Eden” is a place of comfort vaguely similar to our childhood, and that once we

“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

This provokes the readers' psyche of a lonesome, fragile individual, standing isolated at the end of an dark, treacherous road. This imagery is successfully used to illustrate a portrait of Dickinson, or even the individual reading the piece themselves, as they’re yearning for their new life, which right now is filled with darkness and sorrow. The poem is comprised of five stanzas, each consisting of four lines. The monotonous nature of the poem is nothing gleaming or eye catching, and this is purposely done for the conspicuous fact that sometimes, precious values and things you love are vaporized. With the abandonment of something important, the world does not stop revolving around you and seemingly mold itself for you. It will continue to revolve in the same way it always has for four and half billion years, but now only seeming to be filled with darkness, difficulty and

One aspect of the poem that surprises readers is the relationship between the speaker and the fly .The first surprise involved in this relationship, is the combined revelation of the fly and the speaker’s death. As the poem begins, the speaker says to readers, “I heard a fly buzz-when I died” (Dickinson, 1). After reading that the speaker heard the buzz of a fly, readers may expect the death of the fly or more detail on the fly itself. However, the speaker hits readers by telling them that they heard the buzzing at the moment of their own death. Dickinson is immediately telling readers that her poem contains supernatural elements that link to the fly. This may come as a shock to readers, since they may ponder the significance of the fly within the speaker’s death, as it is not yet revealed by the end of the poem’s first line. The relationship between the speaker and the fly continues to be surprising, as the speaker describes the fly as the power that controls their life (the gateway between life and death). The speaker says:

Emily Dickinson, a famous poem whom uses and freely expressional expresses her perception in life. The poem “If you were coming in the fall” by Emily Dickinson expresses many different themes such as time and love. The main theme in the story is hidden throughout the entire poem, and expressed in a sorrowful tone.

Emily Dickinson's most famous work, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" is generally considered to be one of the great masterpieces of American poetry (GALE). Dickinson experienced an emotional crisis of an undetermined nature in the early 1860's. Her traumatized state of mind is believed to have inspired her writing. In this particular poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” the deceased narrator of the poem reminisces about that material day when Death came seeking for her. In stanza one of the poem, the speaker states that she had always been too occupied to give room to death, so in good manner, he stopped for her. She further remarks that, in his carriage, she was accompanied by Immortality alongside Death. "The Carriage held

Suffering is a heart wrenching experience that causes great grief to an individual. Suffering can be found in many scenarios. A lost love or an unbearable pain caused by death. Suffering is much more intense than just plain and simple pain. Nobody wants to go through suffering it is a pain like no other. Emily Dickinson, a wonderful poet, wrote many poems about love and death. One poem she wrote about love is “If You Were Coming in the Fall”. This poem is all about waiting for the person you love to show up but they never do. She also wrote a poem about death titled “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” which is about slowly becoming ill in the brain. Both of her poems are about very different topics but they have the same theme of suffering. The speakers in both poems are going through some sort of suffering either because of someone else or by things they can not control. In “ If You Were Coming in the Fall” and “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” written by Emily Dickinson, the author uses similes, repetition, and imagery to help convey the theme of suffering.

Have you lost someone close to you in your life? It is difficult to deal with and my group and I read the poem “If You Were Coming in the Fall” be Emily Dickinson. The poem talks about a person talking about waiting for someone. During Dickinson’s life she lost many loved ones like family, close friends and her professor. This fact is relevant to the poem because the poem could be talking about meeting her loved ones again in the not so near future. After reading the poem I believe that the theme to “If You Were Coming in the Fall” by Emily Dickinson, is that when a person loses someone, the waiting will make them desperate to see that person again.

You Were Coming in the fall”. The poem is written by a woman named Emily Dickinson who studied in Amherst and Mount Holyoke female seminary, and made 1,800 poems in her life. THe poem is about someone who constantly waits for some else.Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson had lost many friends, family members and professors along the way due to illnesses such as cancer. I believe that the theme is people wait anxiously for an eternity for someone who may never return. The reason I believe that is the theme is because of how many important people that influenced her have passed away, and that she is constantly waiting for someone to help her in her time of

In Emily Dickinson’s poem #340, or also known as “I felt a funeral in my brain,” there is a theme of change that can be derived from the imagery presented by the poet. The poem is voiced from the perspective of the deceased who describes their funeral as heard through the casket. The choice to utilize a funeral as a backdrop to this poem is intriguing given that there could be many other ways to depict a personal change. Even though other poetic styles like Romanticism and transcendentalism exists in this era, Dickinson chooses to this ominous subject medium. Dickinson’s choice of setting for this poem could be indicative of her surroundings, namely the death-riddled Civil War era. Whether this poem represents a positive change or a negative change, is left up to the interpretation of the reader. One certainty is that Dickinson takes the reader into a story of transformation. Upon further examination, I would like to explore why I perceive this poem to be a metamorphosis for a positive change that emerges from a cocoon of the macabre.

There are over three million cases of depression every year, and odds are you may know someone. Depression is a very common mental condition nowadays in the 21st century and most people can’t even recognize someone who is depressed. Famous American poet Emily Dickinson is probably America’s favorite poet, or one of the four favorites after Frost, Hughes, and Plath. Dickinson, in her poems, doesn’t always seem like the theme is depression/death/dying, as much as Plath, but there are a few of her poems where she does represent death or depression. We know that most of her life was pretty decent, or normal. However, there was a point in her life at around the age of 14 where she lost one of her closest friends Sofia, which people believe was a point where she started writing poems about death. People believe that a few of her famous poems about death happened around her near

Poetry is the vessel for thoughtful expression and serves as a template for displaying raw emotions. The power behind unassuming stanzas demands that the reader inquire a deeper interpretation than the blatantly printed words. Evoking a sense of sincerity and honestness, poetry conveys what prose cannot: our innermost feelings and insecurities. Because of this, theme is richly embedded throughout poetry and offers insight into the poet's life. For instance, Emily Dickinson’s existence is synonymous with her writing as her writing reflects her intimate struggles. While various themes are prevalent in her works, the poems that manifest Dickinson’s definition of love prove to be painfully relatable and delightfully vivid. In the poems “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” and “If You were Coming in the Fall”, the theme is heavy with heartache due to the inevitable afflictions caused by relationships. Emily Dickinson highlights the pain of fixation and separation in each of these writings with the use of metaphors, similes, repetition, paradox, and tone. Her reclusive tendencies and bouts of unrequited love produced brilliant autobiographies of the sorrows infatuation brings.