Emily Dickenson novel analysis "If you were coming in the fall"

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The poets of the nineteenth century wrote on a variety of topics. One often-used topic is that of love. The theme of love has been approached in many different ways. Emily Dickinson is one of the numerous poets who use love as the subject of several of her poems. In "if you were coming in the fall," Emily Dickinson uses several metaphors to enhance the theme of the time spent waiting for love. In this …

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…when love is going to come. It hurts waiting for love, but not knowing when love comes hurt even more. Emily Dickinson uses many metaphors to express the theme. This provides powerful images and makes the theme more visible. Through those images it shows that love is worth waiting for and waiting is worth the love. Emily Dickinson has been able to reveal the theme that love is the controller of human time and energy.