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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 31.
Summer for thee, grant I may be
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Comment 2 of 2, added on March 29th, 2007 at 11:43 PM.
As always, Nature speaks in this poem. Almost a prayer that the speaker, the anemone, be allowed to be "summer" when it is gone; to be music when the songs of the birds are gone. Then, an abrupt promise: to bloom for the hearer, the anemone will be plowed under. Then the prayer again that the speaker, the anemone, be gathered forever. Typical Dickinson: personification and a dialogue between some element of nature speaking to the hearer or reader, in this case. Yes, this is a "summer" poem.
Loretta from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on March 14th, 2007 at 6:38 PM.
HEy its the summer ANd i love this poem~~~~
NORma from United States
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As always, Nature speaks in this poem. Almost a prayer that the speaker, the anemone, be allowed to be "summer" when it is gone; to be music when the songs of the birds are gone. Then, an abrupt promise: to bloom for the hearer, the anemone will be plowed under. Then the prayer again that the speaker, the anemone, be gathered forever. Typical Dickinson: personification and a dialogue between some element of nature speaking to the hearer or reader, in this case. Yes, this is a "summer" poem.
Loretta from United States