There came a Wind like a Bugle Summary & Analysis
by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson's "There came a Wind like a Bugle" marvels at the power of nature and the terror of change. Recalling a day when a huge thunderstorm nearly tore their hometown to shreds, the awestruck speaker wonders that the world can host such uproar without being ripped apart itself. Like most of Dickinson's poems, this one wasn't published until after Dickinson's death; it first appeared in the posthumous collection Poems (1891).

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