A Day | Emily Dickinson | Poem | Question Answers
1. How does the poet describe the morning sun (sunrise) in the first stanza?
-> The poem A Day is composed by Emily Dickinson. In her poem she symbolizes sunrise as birth and sunset as death. She describes the morning sun (sunrise) in the following ways;
- She describes the ribbon (rays) of the sun.
- She says that church steeples looks as if it is swimming in amethyst (purple) in the sky.
- She compares the speed of sunrise with squirrels’ run because it happens very quickly and everybody knows about the sunrise (news of sunrise spreads faster).
- She says that hills look as if it is removing its hat.
- She writes that American bird Bobolink starts singing.
in this way poet observes and explains the morning sun or sunrise.
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