he poem shows energy passing through the experience of love, revealing a spectrum of possibilities. In many of Dickinson's poems, the prism discloses earthly colors; in this first poem, the possibilities cross time and then, exceeding violet, probe into eternity:
What matters in passion is its prismatic quality, the range of its refraction. Always for Dickinson love is an opportunity for observation, for hypothesis, for experimentation, for revelation (Morris 98).
Dickinson's poetry is very self-referential, creating its own mythology and carrying it through poem after poem. She looks through the material world and finds in it symbols of a spiritual reality others may not have seen and certainly cannot express as she does. Her poetry can be seen as having an organic whole and as being one long poem of multidimensional reality, with each dimension presenting a certain deep and penetrating mood, a certain phase or stage of that reality:
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