<div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-medium"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" src="https://subtextpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Dickinson-Cover-Final-300x300.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2030" srcset="https://subtextpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Dickinson-Cover-Final-300x300.jpg 300w, https://subtextpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Dickinson-Cover-Final-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://subtextpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Dickinson-Cover-Final-150x150.jpg 150w, https://subtextpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Dickinson-Cover-Final-768x768.jpg 768w, https://subtextpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Dickinson-Cover-Final-75x75.jpg 75w, https://subtextpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Dickinson-Cover-Final.jpg 1500w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></figure> </div> <p>If only because of its seeming incongruity with a brain “wider than the sky,” the central fact of Emily Dickinson’s life has become her seclusion. As she wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1869, “I do not cross my Father’s ground to any House or town.” Like the relatively modest dimensions of her poems, this self-imposed constraint—of the property line within Amherst, Massachusetts, then the Dickinson home itself, then her bedroom—proved no barrier to a cosmic poetic imagination which “went out upon circumference,” and to which no subject, tone, or emotion was foreign. Erin &amp; Wes discuss four of Dickinson’s best-loved poems, whose little rooms contain some of the definitive poetic statements on grief, pain, violence, death, reason, identity, and encounters with the divine: numbers 340, 372, 320, and 477.</p> <p><strong>Upcoming Episodes</strong>: Rosemary&#8217;s Baby.</p> <p>Pre-order Erin&#8217;s forthcoming book &#8220;Avail&#8221; here: <a href="http://subtextpodcast.com/avail">http://subtextpodcast.com/avail</a></p> <p>For bonus content, become a paid subscriber at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/subtext">Patreon</a> or directly on the Apple Podcasts app. Patreon subscribers also get early access to ad-free regular episodes. </p> <p>This podcast is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Visit <a href="https://www.airwavemedia.com">AirwaveMedia.com</a> to listen and subscribe to other Airwave shows like <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-job-brain/id507938401" title="">Good Job, Brain</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/big-picture-science/id73329638?mt=2&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4" title="">Big Picture Science</a>.</p> <p>Email&nbsp;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&nbsp;to enquire about advertising on the podcast.</p> <p>Follow:<strong> </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/enjoysubtext">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/subtextpodcast/">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://subtextpodcast.com/">Website</a></p>