Think about Dickinson's tone. Does she seem to be writing for other people or only for herself? How might she universalize private feelings?
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Though she was a reclusive individual and a poet of extraordinary inward depth, Dickinson's poems are not simply private shorthand for her own thoughts; on the contrary, Dickinson tends to embody her own experience in universalizing language, implying two things: one, that other human beings will identify with her thoughts and feelings; and two, that her poetry will enable her audience to enter into and share her experience. Poetry, like letter-writing (she described her poems as "My letter to the World / That never wrote to Me"), was never a solitary endeavor for Dickinson; she always had a reader in mind, even though she did not publish during her lifetime. Her most common technique for universalizing her own experience is to present her observations in the form of homilies, short moral aphorisms, such as "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed."
