Prompt:
In two poems written two decades apart, Emily Dickinson writes of summer—first enchanted by its dazzling lushness and vibrancy, then disillusioned at its indifference and idle excess.
Consider which resonates with you, and what it says about your relationship to summer. Then compose your own ode to the season. If you’d like, use Dickinson’s first lines as a frame or as a refrain: “A something in a summer's Day” or “Summer — we all have seen —.”
