"Apparently with no surprise"

Apparently with no surprise,
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play,
In accidental power.
The blond assassin passes on.
The sun proceeds unmoved,
To measure off another day,
For an approving God.


Analysis:

In "Apparently with no Surprise" Dickinson writes about the attitude of nature. In the first stanza she writes about a "happy flower" who gets hit by the frost. With the use of personification, through describing the flower as happy, the reader can relate more to the feeling of the actions in the nature. The speaker might try to suggest the brutality of life, through comparing it to the nature, and how the "happy flower" conveys its true brutality; frost. But that's just reality, and things can often happen accidentaly. It simply goes on as it always has, regardless of tragedy.