Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- First Published: 1891
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Storms, Sea or seafaring life, Separation, Wind
The Poem
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” contains no narrative plot to report; there is no story to tell. The poem is sustained exclamation, an extended expression of agitated yearning for reunion with a lover. In the first stanza, a storm seems to be raging, the seas in ferment from the winds. Were the speaker with her lover, there would be stormy nights of their own making, born of passionate indulgence and privilege (“Our luxury”).
In the second stanza, the persona remarks that the winds cannot avail against “a Heart in port”—that is, a lover can transcend...
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