“Wild Nights” Explication Emily Dickinson’s poem “Wild Nights” is a three quatrain structure poem filled with passion, love, and nautical imagery. The speaker can be identified as male or female but I read the poem from a male perspective due to the last two lines, “Might I but moor '' Tonight - In Thee!”. The sexual connotation jumps out at you here and the wording “In Thee” instead of “With Thee” forces me to identify the phrase as sexual and therefore the speaker as male. The poem is written in such a way that it could be viewed as a letter from the man to his desired lover where he is remembering the past wild nights they have experienced together and strongly desires more wild nights with her. I definitely interpret this poem as being set in the summer time because the nautical imagery influences me to imagine being on the ocean on a sunny day with refreshing winds. Also, when I think of wild nights I tend to think of wild summer nights at the beach or on the lake. His great lust for her evokes a warm feeling because he is talking in a very hot, sexual manner as well that makes me think of warm weather. This poem seems to be set in the afternoon with the nautical imagery and also because he is speaking as if he is looking forward to the night. The poem begins by repeating “Wild Nights” twice with a pause between the two and an exclamation point after the second. The second line, “Were I with thee”, indicates that they have possibly had wild nights together before, or it could just be a wishful thought. The pause in the first line indicates that the speaker is thinking about wild nights with the desired lover and after the first time he says it, he pauses to think of these nights and just how wild they may have been. He then repeats himself and Dickinson uses an exclamation point after the second “Wild Nights” as if he is thinking “Damn, those were some wild nights”. In the last two lines of the first quatrain the speaker says “Wild Nights should be our...