Beginning with Dickinson's amazing lines,
This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me,--
The simple news that Nature told,
with tender majesty
My impression on these lines of the poem is that the first two lines are simply arresting.
The poet could have been arrested by the thought herself.
As a kid undergoing extreme mental turmoil, I had felt keenly about how nobody asked me what was happening to me. \NObody. The world did not come forward to me or reach out to me even a tiny bit. I was drowning in confusion and sadness and watched everyone and everything in eyes groggy with pain. College, the professors, the thousand students who walked by me everyday, the numerous passersby on crowded streets.
maybe she felt the way I did, that no one came forward to understand the unique and poignant moments in her life.
But why does she switch to describing nature and its message in the next lines?
Then she writes
Her message is committed to hands I cannot see
What does she mean? Does she herself not get nature's message and even call it a simple one with tender majesty? Why would she talk about a secret that she cannot understand?
Then the guity last lines
For the love of her, sweet countrymen, Judge tenderly of me.
I think the poet's environment made women feel so inferior that she dubs all countrymen to be sweet and wants them to judge her substandard self leniently.
In the end I feel the poet is just doodling with words.
