Expression Of Love In Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Emily Dickinson was an amazing writer of the 1800’s and her work is still read today. Emily Dickinson wrote short poems that expressed the speakers emotions and gave you a sense of imagery. In her poems, “If you were coming in the fall” and “You left me” Emily Dickinson expresses love through her writing and uses time and figures of speech to create a new outlook for the reader. These poems have more similarities than differences. Emily Dickinson expresses love differently, buy they both have different meanings behind them and in both she uses metaphors to compare her feelings. Emily Dickinson’s expression of love in her poems are complete opposites. In “If you were coming in the fall” Emily Dickinson expresses love as something that she will wait for, no mater how long it takes, “If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I’d toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity” Emily Dickinson is saying that if their love is meant to be then it will be. Even when time runs out they will still have a chance. In “You left me”, love is expressed as something that causes pain, “You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea” Emily Dickinson is trying to tell the reader that love causes pain because it either succeeds or it ends in heartbreak. Emily Dickinson …show more content…
In “If you were coming in the fall” the hidden meaning of love is similar to how “You left me explains it. “If you were coming in the fall” suggests that love is worth the wait and if it is meant to be, then it will be; but it can also mean that the longer you wait for someone, the more pain it can cause in the future. “You left me” shows two sides of love, the good side and the bad side, “You left me, sweet, two legacies” Emily Dickinson is trying to show you the two sides of love, legacies of that love and the pain caused by that love. In both poems, Emily Dickinson is trying to tell the reader that love is