Emily Dickinson

Good Morning Midnight

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Good Morning Midnight - meaning Summary

Embracing Night After Loss

The poem presents a speaker who has been metaphorically rejected by Day and turns to Midnight as an alternative refuge. Day and Midnight are personified; Day once offered warmth and belonging but now withdraws, prompting a plaintive, childlike appeal to Night. The speaker registers loss and resignation rather than anger, asking Night to accept her even though she originally preferred Day. The poem sketches emotional abandonment, the search for comfort in darkness, and a fragile hope that Night might provide consolation when the brighter world has turned away.

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Good Morning Midnight I’m coming Home Day got tired of Me How could I of Him? Sunshine was a sweet place I liked to stay But Morn didn’t want me now So Goodnight Day! I can look can’t I When the East is Red? The Hills have a way then That puts the Heart abroad You are not so fair Midnight I chose Day But please take a little Girl He turned away!

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