Emily Dickinson | If you were coming in the Fall

Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet who lived in reclusive isolation in Amherst, Massachusetts. She composed about 1,800 poems but only a few were published during her lifetime - the majority of them were given as gifts to friends along with either a cherry pie or a batch of cookies. Her poems were collected and published in 1995 in "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" by Thomas H. Johnson.

In, "If you were coming in the Fall", the speaker is melancholic as she explores how the absence of a loved one can be psychologically stressful. The speaker is awaiting the return of her lover but as time passes on, she starts to doubt if he will return to her.

Music:
Gymnopedie No. 3 - Kevin MacLeod

Works Cited:
Dickinson, E. (1997). If you were coming in the Fall. In R. Probst, R. Anderson, J. Leggett, J. M. Brinnin, & J. L. Irvin, Elements of Literature - Fifth Course: Literature of the United States (pg. 376). Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

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