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Emily Dickinson If You Desperately Coming In The Fall Analysis

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The theme of Emily Dickinson’s “If You Were Coming in the Fall” is, in many ways, relatively straightforward: human beings will give everything to pursue their love. Throughout the poem, Emily Dickinson employs an abundance of figurative language to create an image of a woman desperately waiting for her lover’s return. To better understand the poem, it would behoove one to first understand the author. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts and had an introverted personality. She rarely left the vicinity of her home and very few people visited her. However, despite not having many guests, every person that visited her impacted her life. Some of her visitors were men and, needless to say, she fell in love with

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