Like Some Old Fashioned Miracle
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Like Some Old Fashioned Miracle - meaning Summary
Autumn as Remembered Summer
The poem presents late summer or early autumn as a delicate, nostalgic echo of high summer rather than its end. Dickinson likens this season to an old-fashioned miracle: memories and sensations that seem almost invented but deeply moving. Imagery of bees, blossoms, and muted music conveys a gentle, plausible unreality—comforting recollection that replaces active experience, leaving perception and feeling numbed yet elated by reminiscence.
Read Complete AnalysesLike Some Old fashioned Miracle When Summertime is done Seems Summer’s Recollection And the Affairs of June As infinite Tradition As Cinderella’s Bays Or Little John of Lincoln Green Or Blue Beard’s Galleries Her Bees have a fictitious Hum Her Blossoms, like a Dream Elate us till we almost weep So plausible they seem Her Memories like Strains Review When Orchestra is dumb The Violin in Baize replaced And Ear and Heaven numb
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