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Emily Dickinson - Will there really be a "Morning"?

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?

Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Men from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "Morning" lies!

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Will there really be a "Morning"? - Comments and Information

Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 101. Will there really be a "Morning"?
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955

Comment 9 of 9, added on April 20th, 2008 at 11:42 AM.

Do you know that " Will there really be a morning?" is also the title of a very moving autobiography by Frances Farmer, who was a Hollywood star in the 30's, before being sent to a lunatic asylum. This was her favorite poem and reflected her own life.

Jean-Claude Laforge from Belgium
Comment 8 of 9, added on February 1st, 2008 at 5:57 PM.

This poen is pretty bad bloke but im a thinkind will there really be an end to this song!!!!

samantha from Australia
Comment 7 of 9, added on January 14th, 2008 at 9:55 PM.

There are probably several settings of this poem, but Craig Hella Johnson's SA version is spectacularly beautiful.
For Jeremy - if you've never seen a lily pad it is an amazing round floating object, not dissimilar to a webbed foot. Of course it is the lightest footprint ever, floating on water, as gentle as her other metaphor of a bird's feather. I think it is an incredible way to envision a "morning" or awakening when you have been secluded (as Dickinson was), depressed, or "asleep" to life.

Joanna from United States

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