Dickinson Explication #130 This poem speaks of the final summer days of the year, possibly coming after the initial fall cool down. The speaker begins by saying These are the days when Birds come backA very fewa Bird or twoTo take a backward look, referring to the few remaining birds in the last of the warm days of the year. She then describes these days as deceptive, comparing them to that of June, A blue and gold mistake. In the third stanza she begins by saying Oh fraud that cannot cheat the bee, talking about the disappearance of bees since the first signs of autumn. She concludes the poem by comparing these days to the death of Christ, saying Oh sacrament of summer days, Oh Last Communion in the HazePermit a child to join.Dickinson Explication #285This poem tells of the speakers familiarity with the nature of the New England area, compared to that of other regions of the world. She begins by saying that the song of the Robin is what she knows, going on to say Because I growwhere Robins do. The speaker then says had she been born in a different area the song of another bird would be her Criterion for Tune. Next she says The Buttercups my Whim for Bloom, because she was raised near orchards. She then compares this to what she would have been exposed to in Britain, saying But, were I Britain born, Id Daisies spurn. She concludes by saying all of this is because she is from New England, saying, Because I seeNew EnglandlyThe Queen, discerns like meProvincially.Dickinson Explication #328The speaker describes once seeing a bird come down the walk, unaware that it was being watched. The bird ate an angleworm, then "drank a Dew / From a convenient Grass--," then hopped sideways to let a beetle pass by. The bird's frightened, bead-like eyes glanced all around. Cautiously, the speaker offered him "a Crumb," but the bird "unrolled his feathers" and flew away--as though rowing in the water, but with a grace gentler than that with whi...
