They Won’t Frown Always Some Sweet Day
poem 874
They Won’t Frown Always Some Sweet Day - meaning Summary
Forgiveness Imagined in Memory
Emily Dickinson's brief lyric imagines a future moment when the speaker's critics no longer frown. The community will recall her curt manners and the polite Please
, then hurry to fetch a little girl who cannot properly thank them for ice described as lisping full
. The poem quietly suggests hope for later understanding, and how small gestures and childhood vulnerability reshape collective memory.
They won’t frown always some sweet Day When I forget to tease They’ll recollect how cold I looked And how I just said Please. Then They will hasten to the Door To call the little Girl Who cannot thank Them for the Ice That filled the lisping full.
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