The first thing that jumped out at me was the author’s tone. Dickinson exudes the feeling of complete contentment with waiting however long it will take for her love to come back to her. “If you were coming in the fall, I’d brush the summer by with half a smile and half a spurn as housewives do a fly.” The metaphor used here with the housewife and fly being compared to how she feels brushing her summer by completely tells the reader how seriously committed she is to the one she loves. She would pass months by without a second thought just as a housewife half-heartedly brushes away a fly with a sense of ordinariness. At times, I understand what she means because I am completely willing to wait for …show more content…
Her feelings are so strong that she mentions suicide. “If certain when this life was out, that yours and mine should be, I’d toss it yonder like a rind and taste eternity.” I felt a pang in my chest when I read this, because the woman is clearly devastated that she is alone. The lengths the author would go to spend her life with this person are no longer tame and woeful, she is so depressed without him that she can’t bear to function on her