Emily Dickinson's If You Were Coming In The Fall

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

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.

“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 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

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.

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

“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.

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

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:

In Dickinson’s “We never knew how high we are” and in her “A Man may make a remark,” the speaker is presented with the notion that we are capable of much, yet we may fail to harness that potential. In “We,” the reader is presented with the idea that, as Longfellow championed, we can be the one the one who carries our brother when he is in need. The prerequisite, though, is one willingness to offer his shoulder, his back. In “A Man,” the reader is reminded that words house power--when rightly applied.

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.

Not only does she seem to believe immortality is awaiting her, she is strong in her opinion, as the sentence ends in a period revealing that she is serious and near certain in her belief. In this first stanza, the inability to fully understand what Death has done and what death has in store for the speaker can relate directly to the message of the poem as a whole. That death is nothing like what we can image or comprehend.

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.