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Dickerson's The Soul Selects Her Own Society

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In the poem “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”, Dickerson uses the stones as being symbolic to unchanging with times. “then-close the valves of her attention like stone-” this illustrates her shutting herself off from society and remaining both silent and undisturbed. “The soul selects her own Society then- shuts the door-.” Both lines show how we can remove ourselves from society. “A bird came down the walk”, the bird symbolizes the inability to be bent in any kind of way. It shows the flexibility we have with nature. “Hope is the thing with feathers”, she uses the birds to stand for hope. This is one of the poems that Dickinson writes that uses personification and does not offer grief. Dickinson’s poems offer a lot of insight into her work

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