"Summer we all have seen " By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Summer we all have seen [1] A few of us believed [2] A few the more aspiring[3] Unquestionably loved [4] But Summer does not care [5] She goes her spacious way[6] As eligible as the moon[7] To our Temerity [8] The Doom to be adored [9] The Affluence conferred [10] Unknown as to an Ecstasy[11] The Embryo endowed [12]
Poem 1386 [F1413] "Summer we all have seen" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

The work sheet draft of this poem has more than twenty variant readings, but the only differences of text in Johnson and Franklin are that Johnson's 'our' in line 8 becomes 'the' in Franklin, and lines 9-10 in Johnson read 'The Doom to be adored /the Affluence conferred' but in Franklin appear as 'Deputed to adore -/the Doom to be adored.' Emily herself was one of those who 'unquestionably loved' Summer, but even she admits that 'Summer does not care' for men, but is as remote as the moon to any rash human attempts to elicit sympathy from her. Indeed summer is as heartless towards her as is Sue. Then she says, in Franklins's text, that our job is to adore summer, even though the eventual 'Doom' or fate of that adoration is as unknown to us as its eventual 'Ecstasy' is to an 'Embryo,' or, in Johnson's text, that whether we are adoring 'Doom' or that which will confer 'Affluence' is as unknown to us as its eventual 'Ecstasy' is to an 'Embryo.'
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