A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, which is also defined as a fear of an object or situation that the sufferer tries to avoid. Looking through Dickinson’s poems, it is seems that she suffered from Social Phobia. In this phobia, the person is afraid to go out in public and feels that they may be embarrassed or embarrass someone else. This fear causes the person to not go anywhere.
The poem, “There is a solitude of space” shows this phobia. The poem is similar to Dickinson’s life because they both contain a type of “solitude.” “There is a solitude of space…of sea…of death…” tells the reader that there is space to be lonely, in the sea of people you begin to feel lonely and by yourself, and that you feel lonely of dying alone. In the stanza, Dickinson uses space to show loneliness (There is a solitude of space). In the second line, she uses the sea to show that even when people are around, isolation can still happen (A solitude of sea), and in the third line, she uses death as an example because people fear death (A solitude of death). The line “Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy” tells the society will just be compared to a great place of understanding. The final two lines are saying that the soul is brought to itself and is limited yet limitless (A soul admitted to itself—Finite Infinity.) This poem reveals that Dickinson was…show more content… The titles of the poems “There is a solitude of space” and “My life closed twice before its close” show this phobia. The poem “There is a solitude of space” related to Dickinson’s life because she kept to herself, was isolated from everyone, and she died without many people around her. The poem “My life closed twice before its close” shows the reason for her phobia, which is that her loved ones left her alone. This could’ve been a cause of her phobia, because she may have lost her family and friends, which left her in