Letting the involvement of certain people in your life have such a consumption over your thoughts is something I struggle with. I have always been a person who cares too much about the opinions of others or is constantly worried about people and situations I have no power over. In “If You Were Coming in the Fall” the author shows a deep interpersonal struggle with giving the people she loves too much influence over her that she cannot control. Because of this, I enjoyed reading these true accounts revealing how the author was feeling because it causes me to feel a sense of normalcy to my sometimes overanalyzing and overactive brain.
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
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