Scarlet

In the poem “the name of it is “Autumn”, there are many internal meanings and hidden meaninigs that can discovered. I think it is interesting that a female such as Emily Dickinson wrote a poem of this vulgarity and truth. I think it shows a lot about the female population during the civil war and the lack of knowledge that students have of women writers like Emily. When I first started reading her poems it was not what I expected. I think people sometimes pin point female writers to only speak of light subjects and that is very untrue with Emily Dickinson. I did some outside reading on this poem and some scholars said that it may or may not have been speaking about the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War. Due to the fact that this was based in the north, it could explain the emphasis of Autumn time and the leaves and nature.
The color imagery in the poem was phenomenal to me. The red of Autumn can directly link to the red color of blood that runs through veins and arteries which is then rained upon the ground and poured into a basin which forms a bloody pool of redness. The rose mentioned at the end is also red. My favorite line of the poem is “and spill the Scarlet rain”. When I read this line I not only thought of the color red/scarlet but I thought of the movie Gone With the Wind, which also discussed the Civil War years and the reconstruction era. Although this movie was released earlier than the poem was, it still came into my mind.
The turning point to me in the poem is early and immediately when she mentions the veins and arteries, I believe that the reference to the human body can suddenly makes things real and the imagery becomes even more important.