March Is the Month of Expectation
hope
lyric poem
playful
March is the Month of Expectation. The things we do not know – The Persons of prognostication Are coming now – We try to show becoming firmness – But pompous Joy Betrays us, as his first Betrothal Betrays a Boy.
March Is the Month of Expectation - meaning Summary
Anticipation Laid Bare
The poem presents March as a season of eager anticipation and uncertainty. It treats expectation as an active state: people await unknown outcomes and try to appear composed. That effort at seriousness, however, is undermined by conspicuous joy, which reveals an underlying naïveté. Dickinson likens this exposure to a boy’s clumsy first engagement, suggesting both vulnerability and the human tendency to betray composure when hope or excitement takes hold.
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