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Emily Dickinson poem "Tho' I get home how late". Can somebody help me out? I just need couple ideas.

Here is the poem by Emily Dickinson. I don't understand it and I have nothing to even start working on. Can somebody please help me out!


Tho' I get home how late -- how late --
So I get home -- 'twill compensate --
Better will be the Ecstasy
That they have done expecting me --
When Night -- descending -- dumb -- and dark --
They hear my unexpected knock --
Transporting must the moment be --
Brewed from decades of Agony!

To think just how the fire will burn --
Just how long-cheated eyes will turn --
To wonder what myself will say,
And what itself, will say to me --
Beguiles the Centuries of way!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

it sounds mournful, kinda like the person wants to die -or-maybe it's about loneliness and how the person is tired of being alone all the time...Dickinson was really a miserable woman, who i think was in love with a minister who was married (something like that i do believe). i don't remember how it all goes, but it may help if you look up dickinson and read about her first, then re-read the poem. good luck.