Seasons' Greetings

There's an old joke about Vivaldi that goes something like this:

Some people say that Vivaldi wrote 500 concertos.  Others say he wrote one concerto 500 times.

At the right:  The Four seasons, quintessential Vivaldi.

So what about the seasons and the poetry of Emily Dickinson?  Did she write about all four seasons equally?  Or did she seem to favor one season -- and if so -- which one?

What do you think?  Which season -- or seasons -- were featured in the poetry of Emily Dickinson -- and to what degree?  

I looked into this, and the results are below -- and they might just suprise you.

​Below:  The four seasons -- followed by the number of times in which the season was named in a poem by Dickinson

As you can see, she heavily favored the summer. 

SPRING:  28*

SUMMER:  103

AUTUMN:  11  
FALL:  1**
     
WINTER: 28

* Dickinson used the word "spring" in 31 poems.  In 28 of them she used the term as the name for the season, "spring."

UPDATE:  I was checking on "spring" again (looking for poems where "spring" meant "brook") -- and it turns out there are just 30 (NOT 31) poems that use the word spring.  I sorted the titles of the poems with "spring," and one of them began "Opon a Lilac sea" and another appeared later in the list as it started "Upon a Lilac sea" -- so obviously, those "two" poems are the same work.

** I found 21 poems by Dickinson that used the word "fall," but in only one case did she mean the season of  "autumn": 
​"If you were coming in the fall."

For more statistics on words used in Dickinson's poetry, click HERE. 
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