Now let's look at Emily Dickinson's poem
The Soul selects her own Society
Written probably in 1862
Dickinson's
The Soul selects her own Society
was first published in 1890
in Dickinson's posthumous first collection
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Critics said that Dickinson wrote
more than 300 poems in the year 1862
and that this poem can be read
as a description of her experience
the Soul
perhaps a poet
freely chooses to close herself off
from the outside world
in order to pursue the solitary
interior life of creativity
and self-discovery