Will There Really Be a Morning?
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Will There Really Be a Morning? - context Summary
Published Posthumously in 1891
Published posthumously in 1891 in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, this brief lyric frames existential curiosity as a child's question. The speaker repeatedly asks whether "Morning" and "Day" are real and what they look like, addressing figures of knowledge—scholar, sailor, wise men—for guidance. The poem stages wonder and uncertainty about the world beyond the speaker's reach, turning a simple query about dawn into a larger meditation on knowing, discovery, and the desire for authoritative direction.
Read Complete AnalysesWill there really be a Morning? Is there such a thing as Day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like Water lilies? Has it feathers like a Bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor! Oh some Wise Men from the skies! Please to tell a little Pilgrim Where the place called Morning lies!
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