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Comment 9 of 34, added on April 14th, 2009 at 3:27 AM.

Hasn't anyone made the connection to her personal life? As in, the years
her 'Terror' began? She suffered from 'seasonal issues' where she was happy
with certain seasons and sad with others. Scholars think it may be SAD or
bipolar disorder. Look them up. in her poem, she says, "... Twas just this
time, last year, I died."

Dickinson ALWAYS refers to her death poems as the death being in the past,
while telling you of them in the present.

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Comment 7 of 34, added on April 3rd, 2007 at 1:51 AM.

Richard Brevans below writes, "You notice the word "tassels" to describe
the yellow corn, thats strange" There's nothing strange about it. That's
exactly what corn tassels are called and de-tasseling the corn is something
rural children used to do to prevent cross polination -- something I'm sure
Dickinson knew all about.

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Comment 5 of 34, added on April 28th, 2006 at 4:29 PM.

This poem is really a nasty attack by Dickinson on the Puritan-type
education and upbringing she had. But its all in a kind of code. You
notice the word "tassels" to describe the yellow corn, thats strange, and
combined with the color red in the next verse, and you realize that she's
making fun of her Puritan college, Mount Holyoke, whose school colors are
red and yellow. So the students are just like rows and rows of corn
wearing their graduation caps with tassels, that's what she thinks of them,
that they are like dumb vegetables. Then the other thing in the poem is
the line about her father multiplying the plates, which is a reference to a
Thanksgiving ceremoney of the Puritans, where they would start handing
around a plate with food on it once the whole town got together, and then
people would take out plates with food they had brought, secretly, and so
after a while there would be lots and lots plates in the room. It was
supposed to be like an episode in the Bible, where one basket of bread fed
everybody in a miracle. This ceremoney was called "multiplying the
plates," and so when the father does this it seems good at first, but then
you realize that he is missing the speaker "least". The speaker is hurt
that her father, of all people, misses her least, and that he cares more
about virtual strangers at these public meetings, where he's passing out
plates of food, than he does about her. So all in all the Puritans come
across as stupid conformity lovers, like rows of standing corn, or really
heartless people who say they love Jesus but don't even care about their
own family members.

Richard Bevans from United States