Trees (Emily Dickinson) — Flashcards

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The central image is the summer landscape seen through trees, birds, flowers, a snake, and the sun. The poem presents nature as lively, musical, and more beautiful than any painted scene.

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The line 'The Trees like Tassels hit – and – swung –' suggests movement in the wind. The trees are compared to tassels, which creates a soft, rhythmic, and decorative image.

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It means the movement and sounds of summer nature create the feeling of music. The poem suggests that the trees, creatures, and air together produce a natural tune.

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'Psalteries of Summer' refers to the musical sounds of summer imagined as psalteries, which are string instruments. The phrase shows how nature is presented as a source of delicate, pleasing music.

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The line 'They never yet did satisfy –' suggests that summer's beauty and music are so rich that they cannot be completely captured by sound alone. The feeling is one of endless wonder and incompleten…

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The Sun is given human qualities through capitalised pronouns such as 'Himself' and 'His'. It is shown as choosing when to appear, which makes nature seem alive and conscious.

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It shows the changing visibility of the sun through clouds. The sun appears complete, then partly visible, and then hidden, creating a sense of shifting light in summer.

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The phrase means the sun seems to possess large cloud regions that can cover it. This is a metaphor that makes clouds seem like the sun's property.