WHEN roses cease to bloom, dear

This poem was written by Emily Dickinson. It is in her Love section of her poem book. It fits good into her love section because she is talking about the end of a relationship, or the start of the end of a relationship. This poem is number thirty nine out of fifty seven poems. As I was looking at the titles of the rest of the poems in the section of love, most of them had titles of sadness. I could tell she wrote the last poems at the end of her relationship with her lover. The poem starts off as her saying, "When roses cease to bloom, dear". I took this as she was talking to the person who she is in a relationship with. I think this because she says dear. That is usually said when directing a sentence at someone. The roses ceasing to bloom stand for the fact that their love is not vibrante any more. All females want new things in relationships. When new things stop happening, women get sad. New things mean like even though a couple is married for fifty years, they can still have fun and try new things with each other. When roses bloom, it is beautiful. Roses symbolize great things for love. They are the flower of love and are given on many occasions to lovers to show compassion for each other. Dickinson had great passion for her lover by comparing their once beautiful love to a wilting flower. "And violets are done,When bumble-bees in solemn flight Have passed beyond the sun" (Dickinson). This is the rest of the first stanza in her poem. It is also talking about flowers dying. Died flowers are very sad to see. When they are alive, they smell good and they make you feel good on the inside because they are so pretty. The bees resemble the life being sucked out of the flowers. Bees taking to nectar out of the flowers which make them smell good. The poem said the bees are in solemn flight, it means that they are sad because the flowers are dead and they can not get any more food from them. The sun passing resembles the end of the relationship like the end of a day. "The hand that paused to gather" (Dickinson). This line talks about the her reaching out her hand to try to save the relationship. " Then take my flower, pray!" (Dickinson). That is the last line in the poem. It is talking about how she is done with the relationship, and she is putting her life into God's hands. Emily Dickinson used great imagery in her poems. When I was reading the poem, I felt like I could see the flowers welting in front of her. The analogy is a good one because when love dies and the relationship is at its end, it sucks. I do not like it when flowers die and it is sad to see them gone. They smell so good and they are pretty and they can help the people around you because since you are in a good mood, everyone around you would be too. The sun passing was a good analogy was because nobody likes the dark and it is sad to see it come.

Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/113/. [March 23, 2011].