Emily Dickinson

FROM cocoon forth a butterfly
As lady from her door
Emerged—a summer afternoon—
Repairing everywhere,
Without design, that I could trace,	5
Except to stray abroad
On miscellaneous enterprise
The clovers understood.
Her pretty parasol was seen
Contracting in a field	10
Where men made hay, then struggling hard
With an opposing cloud,
Where parties, phantom as herself,
To Nowhere seemed to go
In purposeless circumference,	15
As ’t were a tropic show.
And notwithstanding bee that worked,
And flower that zealous blew,
This audience of idleness
Disdained them, from the sky,	20
Till sundown crept, a steady tide,
And men that made the hay,
And afternoon, and butterfly,
Extinguished in its sea.

This peom is comparing a woman and a butterfly. The butterfly comes out and stays ing the garden where the flowers are, while the woman goes out of her house to a place where she can be seen by them men.  The butterfly has no real goal "Miscellaneous Enterprise" and neither does the woman.  both characters just want to be seen, and when the sun goes down, they go home.