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Poem · 1846

A Day Dream

Emily Brontë

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Poem · 1846 · English · Victorian

A Day Dream

Emily Brontë

A summer reverie opens onto reflection about transience and renewal.

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How to read it

The movement from observation to meditation asks whether natural renewal can console individual loss. Read its shifts of scale as part of the argument.

Whole-work summary

A summer reverie opens onto reflection about transience and renewal.

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