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摘要：If so, the Door has already been opened to the pausing Chariots and the kneeling Emperors. Furthermore, as we all know that poets are all both mentally and physically lonely, and poets need a companion more badly than an ordinary people in deed, but in the real life, they hardly find a single friend. The reason is that few people could appreciate them. Just as the Chinese old saying “知音难求”---to find an person who could understand us is very hard.

imperative telling other people to stay away. In the second stanza, the soul ,or essential self, sees people arriving in chariots, an elevated way of describing carriages (perhaps hinting at heavenly as well a at kingly status), but she indicates that she would not be moved even if an emperor asked for her prospective suitors.
In the last stanza, the switch to first person shows Dickinson quietly reveling in the strength of her renunciation. The ample nation is everyone available to her. The chosen one is the beloved whose spirit she lived with or her perhaps taken into herself by the power of imagination. “Valves of her attention” gives the soul the power of concentration. The soul has almost denied everything else in life to lock itself into its strange relationship with the chosen “one”. “Stone” represents its complete rejection of the rest of the world. The alternating in the two-syllable line of the last stanza parallels this closing down and strengthens our sense of a painful but glorious triumph in the concluding lines. Unusually rich in sound effects, including alliteration, rhyme, and modulation of vowels, this is one of Dickinson’s greatest successes in poetic technique. Some critics believe that the subject of the poem is the union of the soul with the muse or the God, rather than with a lover.

B. New Interpretation

However, as loyal readers, still we could try to explain the poem in another way. As far as I am concerned, perhaps the selected “Society” is not other people, but the poetess herself. To a large extent, poets are all spirits who come from heaven, and Emily. Dickinson is not an exception. Her body is belongs to the practical world, while in her heart, she has set up a kingdom for her soul. In such a kingdom, the soul is completely free, independent, and happy. No one could interfere a little, for she is the absolute authority there. She could run as fast as she could; she could cry as loud as she like; and she could do everything on her own will. Therefore, when choosing the companion, she uses her own standard. We could never know what the standard is, but we could know at least it is not something material. If so, the Door has already been opened to the pausing Chariots and the kneeling Emperors. Furthermore, as we all know that poets are all both mentally and physically lonely, and poets need a companion more badly than an ordinary people in deed, but in the real life, they hardly find a single friend. The reason is that few people could appreciate them. Just as the Chinese old saying “知音难求”---to find an person who could understand us is very hard.