We Like March

by Emily Dickinson

In We Like March, Dickinson personifies the month and the new season. It offers a range of energies and is playful, but what do those purple shoes symbolize?

An illustration for the story We Like March by the author Emily Dickinson — Would you recognize March if you saw him?

We like March, his shoes are purple,
He is new and high;
Makes he mud for dog and peddler,
Makes he forest dry;
Knows the adder's tongue his coming,
And begets her spot.
Stands the sun so close and mighty
That our minds are hot.
News is he of all the others;
Bold it were to die
With the blue-birds buccaneering
On his British sky.

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