Bee! I’m Expecting You!
poem 1035
Bee! I’m Expecting You! - meaning Summary
Anticipating a Summer Visitor
Dickinson addresses a bee as a welcomed, expected guest, blending human routines with seasonal natural life. The poem lists signs of spring or summer — frogs returned, birds back, clover thick — to mark readiness for the bee's arrival. Its tone is intimate and playful, treating a simple insect visit like incoming correspondence and companionship. The closing salutation collapses distance between writer and nature, turning anticipation into a familiar social exchange and suggesting comfort in cyclical renewal.
Read Complete AnalysesBee! I’m expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due The Frogs got Home last Week Are settled, and at work Birds, mostly back The Clover warm and thick You’ll get my Letter by The seventeenth; Reply Or better, be with me Yours, Fly.
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