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    This poem describes a slow moving day where the narrator waits for a visit from Samuel Bowles. She hears the day's axles moving reluctantly as if they hated motion. When her soul waits with her to no avail, she tells it they will go play and return, only to find upon returning that the day had passed and Bowles had come and gone without her noticing. An analysis notes the poem expresses the feeling of time passing slowly when waiting for a loved one, as in an earlier poem, and suggests the narrator was waiting for a visit from Bowles that she missed during her time playing with her soul.

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    This poem describes a slow moving day where the narrator waits for a visit from Samuel Bowles. She hears the day's axles moving reluctantly as if they hated motion. When her soul waits with her to no avail, she tells it they will go play and return, only to find upon returning that the day had passed and Bowles had come and gone without her noticing. An analysis notes the poem expresses the feeling of time passing slowly when waiting for a loved one, as in an earlier poem, and suggests the narrator was waiting for a visit from Bowles that she missed during her time playing with her soul.

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    Analysis: " This Slow Day Moved Along - " by Emily Dickinson

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    This poem describes a slow moving day where the narrator waits for a visit from Samuel Bowles. She hears the day's axles moving reluctantly as if they hated motion. When her soul waits with her to no avail, she tells it they will go play and return, only to find upon returning that the day had passed and Bowles had come and gone without her noticing. An analysis notes the poem expresses the feeling of time passing slowly when waiting for a loved one, as in an earlier poem, and suggests the narrator was waiting for a visit from Bowles that she missed during her time playing with her soul.

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    "This slow Day moved along --"

    By Emily Dickinson
    [Analysis]
    This slow Day moved along -- [1]
    I heard its axles go [2]
    As if they could not hoist themselves [3]
    They hated motion so -- [4]
    I told my soul to come -- [5]
    It was no use to wait -- [6]
    We went and played and came again [7]
    And it was out of sight -- [8]
    Poem 1120 [F1198]
    "This slow Day moved along"
    Analysis by David Preest
    [Poem]
    In poem 781 Emily had said, 'To wait an Hour -- is long -/ If Love be just beyond,' and perhaps in this poem the day moves slowly for the
    same reason -- that she is waiting for a visit from Samuel Bowles. After waiting downstairs in vain, she tells her soul to come with her up to
    her room. She plays or communes with her soul for a time, but when she goes downstairs again, she finds that Bowles has been and gone.
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