Emily Dickinson - There Is a Solitude of Space

I think what she’s saying in these lines is that society can

provide a solitude of space, that in the sea of humanity, you

can find the fact you can get lost in the crowd. to be alone

amongst the many. Then there is the solitude of death, which is a

removal from society entirely and the perpetual solitude of the

grave...but such a state may lack awareness. So she says that all these

types of solitude, when compared with that profounder site, "That

polar privacy", which is "A soul admitted to itself" -- you'll find a

different kind of solitude...one that possesses "Finite infinity." The

key here is a "soul admitted to itself"...meaning when you allow your

soul, your inner self, to look inside itself, to truly be "with" itself,

you'll understand the true nature of solitude, of being truly alone,

without the illusion of being "with" any one or anything thing.

Dickinson is being metaphysical here, dealing with a sense of

solitude, whether from someone close to her dying, leaving, or simply

ignoring what she thinks, says or does. She deals with it by analyzing

what being alone is all about, and ends with the realization that we

are all alone, and once we understand how alone we really are, will

never feel alone when we're amongst others and don't have to be by

ourselves, within ourselves, looking at that finite infinity of space

we call the soul.

This poem show forever-ness and finite infinity space.

Themes in Dickinson’s poetry A few themes occupied the poet:

love, nature, doubt and faith, suffering, death, immortality - these

John Donne has called the great granite obsessions of

Humankind. Love, though she was lonely and isolated, Emily

appears to have loved deeply; perhaps only those who have &

quot, loved and lost and quot; can love, with an intensity and

desire which can never be fulfilled in the reality of the lovers'

touch. Nature, A fascination with nature consumed Emily. She