Journal 52: Hopes?

I personally think that when Dickinson wrote "If you were coming in the fall" ­she had a sense of hope and wistful thinking. She beings by writing all the hopeful out comes and how she would react to each one. It seems like she is in a dreamy state which she can't get out of. Each stanza continues on from the previous and making the situation even more unlikely and finally at the end she pops back into reality. Over all the poem has a pessimistic feeling to it yet at the beginning I can just imagine Dickinson spending that summer happily and hopefully waiting for her lover with a smile on her face.  In life there are always things that don't turn out the way we want it to. There are also times when we know that the thing we want is impossible yet we continue with that wistful thinking. There have been times in my life when I expected a better outcome but knew that it wouldn't happen. Every time I put all the optimistic thoughts in my head and in the end it only lets me down. Sometimes being overly optimistic is bad and sometime you need a little bit of pessimism in your life.