Abstract
For Emily Dickinson the Intellect was the ‘Native Land’ and ‘the only Bone whose Expanse we woo —’ (L 888). Everything she did was calculated to serve the largest need of the mind and soul; she had various words for it — ‘Prospective’, ‘Immensity’, ‘Boundlessness’, ‘Expanse’, ‘Possibility’ — but essentially her commitment to the unknown lead her to turn her back on ‘the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men’1 in favour of what she called the ‘Finite infinity’ of ‘A soul admitted to itself’ (Poem 1695). From an early age she made the choices that would allow her to live as large a life as possible. ‘Awe’, she wrote, ‘is the first Hand that is held to us … though there is no Course, there is Boundlessness —’ (L 871).
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