A Day by Emily Dickinson
A Day by Emily Dickinson

A Day

Emily Dickinson * Track #63 On Poems 1890

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A Day by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
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The poet takes the style of a witness and attempts to answer the question of how a sunrise and sunset actually take place. She does not give us merely a dry, scientific explanation but rather employs nature imagery and metaphor to personify the brightening and darkening landscape in a warm and famil...

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I'll tell you how the sun rose, —
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.

The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"

But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.

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A Day was written by Emily Dickinson.

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