Delving into the Mysteries of Dickinson’s “‘Nature’ is What We See”

This article is an attempt to decipher the meaning of Emily Dickinson’s poem 668 “‘Nature’ is what we see” by observing the different mentioned objects (used here to refer to animals, insects, natural phenomena and natural objects) and discovering patterns between the objects in each group as well as patterns that exist between the objects in each group and those in other groups to prove that the choice of these objects was not arbitrary but rather deliberate. Dickinson, as proven in this reading of the poem, tries to reflect the diversity of nature through her choice of the objects she lists in her poem.