Like Rain it sounded till it curved Summary & Analysis
by Emily Dickinson

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In Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it sounded till it curved," a huge rainstorm unsettles a whole landscape, sometimes playfully, sometimes chaotically. A storm, the poem suggests, can feel world-altering—and so too, perhaps, can a symbolic inner storm of thought or feeling. Like most of Dickinson's work, this poem didn't appear in print until many years after her death; this one only appeared in 1945, in the posthumous collection Bolts of Melody.

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