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Circuit III - (20) The Morns are Meeker than They Were (J-0012) (F-0032)
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(1) The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown, (2) The berry's cheek is plumper — The Rose is out of town. (3) The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown — (4) Lest I sh'd be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on. ~ Emily Dickinson  Slideshow ~ Anticipation! | |||||
| Commentary adapted from Emily Dickinson's Poems & Letters | |||||
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(1-meek insect songs vs. birds) "Nature — the Gentlest Mother is, impatient of no child — [...] her voice among the aisles incite the timid prayer of the minutest cricket — the most unnworthy flower." ~ (J-0790) (F-0740) | |||||
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"Presents upon a tree, equally plausibly, but meat within
is requisite, to squirrels and to me." ~ (J-1073) (F-1081) | |||||
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(1-4)
"Who spun the auburn cloth? Computed how the girth? The chestnut aged grows in those primeval clothes —" ~ (J-1271) (F-1414) | |||||
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(3-4 Autumn colors-personal splendor) "Purple — is fashionable twice — this season of the year, and when a soul perceives itself to be an Emperor." ~ (J-0980) (F-0896) | |||||
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(3)
"The leaves, like women, interchange
sagacious confidence; somewhat of nods, and somewhat of portentous inference." ~ (J-0987) (F-1098) | |||||
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(3-4)
"The leaves are very gay — but we know they are elderly." ~ (Fragment #111) | |||||
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(4)
"Nature is fond, I sometimes think, of trinkets,
as a girl." ~ (J-0841) (F-0944) | |||||
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(4) (afterword)
"Besides the autumn poets sing a few prosaic days a little this side of the snow and that side of the haze." ~ (J-0131) (F-0123) | |||||
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