DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "342 It will be Summer -- eventually."  by Emily Dickinson Originally read: April 7, 2013 More information about the Poet: Emily Dickinson Yes, in Emily Dickinson poems the dashes sort of take over  the poem visually, and, since there is a lack of other punctuation in the poem (with the exception of the comma in the first line), there's an assumption that the dashes work as pauses.  I'm not too sure though as I keep reading this poem.  Maybe the dashes will be a discussion for another day. But they do create pauses in interesting places though -- the dashes I mean.  For example, in the first stanza where the speaker is defining summer by the way people act, first there's the dash between "Ladies" and "with parasols" as thought there's a distinction between both; however, there are "Sauntering Gentlemen" and "with canes", and "little girls" and "with Dolls."  These ...