When annotating Dickenson’s poetry, it is easy to highlight her philosophies about loneliness.  She seems averse to notoriety of any kind, and seems to find enlightenment with solitude that others might find suffocating.  Her poems read like midnight confessions written from herself as “letters to the world” as she puts it, which creates her uniquely intimate poetry. 

Aestheticism and Symbolism in the Late 19th Century