1. Short Essay (If you were coming in the Fall) Emily Dickinson has a very distinct style of poetry. She uses slantline (incomplete thoughts) which she delveloped in this poem, If you were coming in the Fall. She also uses one of her classic themes, love. The theme love by itself is much too simple, however, here she adopts the more developed theme of hope of romantic fulfillment. Basically it is love between two people (I …
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…For Dickinson it is a slow, somewhat sad mood. Her I Heard a Fly buzz... was a sad mood, describing what the author heard before he/died. I suppose that the mood of a poem is much like the mood of the author. Emily Dickinson, Walter Whitman Jr. ,both influential authors for their time. They exposed poetry in a new way, and created new styles. They are two of the greatest poets to ever live.