There Is a June When Corn Is Cut
poem 930
There Is a June When Corn Is Cut - meaning Summary
Second Season as Memory
Dickinson contrasts two kinds of summer: a brief, tender second season that follows or echoes a fuller first. The poem imagines revival or return—an image of a face emerging for a single noon—and uses seasonal change to ask whether later, quieter pleasures might be as meaningful as earlier abundance. It frames memory, revival, and comparative value, wondering if one season so enhances the other that we then prefer only one remembered moment.
Read Complete AnalysesThere is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed A Summer briefer than the first But tenderer indeed As should a Face supposed the Grave’s Emerge a single Noon In the Vermilion that it wore Affect us, and return Two Seasons, it is said, exist The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?
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