The evolution of American literature has progressed since the time of the Puritans when they arrived in the New World. Now in the 1800s, Emily Dickinson writes condensed, but complex poems that express her thoughts of death, life, love, nature, and God. She becomes captivated by science and nature in her schooling, which she often writes about in her poems. Her poem numbered eighty-five and titled, “A Light Exists in Spring,” expresses Dickinson’s fascination with the nature and feeling of springtime. It is a letter that she had written to her father whole in solitude out in nature. The keyword of nature is prevalent in this poem, as Dickinson takes us on a journey through the powerful effect the light in spring has on her and her spiritual
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The first image she provides is by explaining the color of the light. She writes, “A color stands abroad on solitary fields,” which describes a particularly different color of light that has begun appear over the hills and fields. It shines over the lawns and lights up the newly blooming trees in the distance. The second image she provides is of the light disappearing. “Then, as horizons step on noons report away without the formula of sound It passes and we stay-” is a quote that expresses how the light whose beauty the person has been enticed with suddenly disappears, as he or she is left there alone and sad. It also gives an anthropomorphic image of the light coming in by “stepping and leaving a mark,” and then “disappearing without making any sound.” The poem also gives imagery of the cycle of life. Spring is a time of growth and rebirth, just as we are born into the world. Then, suddenly we disappear after enjoying all of life’s beauty. However, others are still left behind, and feel a loss. Dickinson provides imagery of the beauty of nature in the spring, the feeling after the beauty is gone, and the cycle of life. The reader is able to see what is happening with the light appearing, existing, disappearing, and the person being left in
The first image she provides is by explaining the color of the light. She writes, “A color stands abroad on solitary fields,” which describes a particularly different color of light that has begun appear over the hills and fields. It shines over the lawns and lights up the newly blooming trees in the distance. The second image she provides is of the light disappearing. “Then, as horizons step on noons report away without the formula of sound It passes and we stay-” is a quote that expresses how the light whose beauty the person has been enticed with suddenly disappears, as he or she is left there alone and sad. It also gives an anthropomorphic image of the light coming in by “stepping and leaving a mark,” and then “disappearing without making any sound.” The poem also gives imagery of the cycle of life. Spring is a time of growth and rebirth, just as we are born into the world. Then, suddenly we disappear after enjoying all of life’s beauty. However, others are still left behind, and feel a loss. Dickinson provides imagery of the beauty of nature in the spring, the feeling after the beauty is gone, and the cycle of life. The reader is able to see what is happening with the light appearing, existing, disappearing, and the person being left in