Emily Dickinson beautifully, concisely describes the transcendental self-referral value of true inner solitude by realizing her unbounded Self.
There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself —
Finite infinity.
When Emily admits the self to the Self, she reiterates the Vedic injunction to transcend, retire, Nivartatwam, into that infinitely silent, Shivam, infinitely peaceful, Shantam, undivided, Advaitam, fourth, Chaturtham, state of consciousness, Atma, the Self.
Emily Dickinson succinctly describes the eternal nature of Love in this short but powerful poem.
Derek Walcott had his own way of describing this return to love, to one’s Self, in Love after Love.
Read how Emily Dickinson wanted her poems to look on the page, described in Rebecca Mead’s Back of the Envelope in The New Yorker: Poesy Dept. | January 27, 2014 Issue. See Emily D.-envelope poems.
Related poem: For Emily Dickinson the brain is wider than the sky and deeper than the sea—a finite infinity.
Famous Poets and Poems lists 1779 of Emily Dickinson’s poems!
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