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November — Emily Dickinson Quotes by Emily Dickinson: Context & Meanings

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Poem in the 1891 Second Series

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The overlooked interval between autumn and snow, haze, ordinary seasonal days and poetic attention to less celebrated nature.

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“Besides the autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the haze.”

Dickinson notices the less celebrated interval between autumn color and winter snow, finding a distinct natural season in days that conventional poetry might overlook.

Source note: “November,” in Poems: Second Series (1891), Project Gutenberg #12242. The passage is tied to the early edited collection and its editorial title.