ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The idea that “The Soul selects her own Society” (that people choose a few companions who matter to them and exclude everyone else from their inner consciousness) conjures up images of a solemn ceremony with the ritual closing of the door, the chariots, the emperor, and the ponderous Valves of the Soul’s attention.

Detailed explanation-2: -Personification-soul personified as a women and by selecting her own society she selects her own soulmate–She is unmoved by chariots and emporers (wealth and power). She chooses one and then closes her heart like stone.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of her favorite themes was immortality. She spent much of her life in solitude, with the vast majority of her work as a poet being discovered only after her death and published posthumously.

Detailed explanation-4: -Death is Emily Dickinson’s main theme which left its impact on all her thinking and gave its tint to the majority of her poems. For Dickinson, death is the supreme touchstone for life. She lived incessantly in his presence.