In winter
in my
room
, The speaker finds a worm, and secures him with
string. She then finds a snake, and binds him as winter in my room, She is speaking of sexuality
well. While speaking to the snake, she realises the most powerful feeling here is of course no
that he understands that she is afraid of life instead it is fear. A worm and snake are more o
beyond her room. emblems of terror and fear, as well as phallic s
The speaker is talking about the sexual know
reclusive virgins
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The speaker responds to the snake with a
mixture of fear, delight and desire. She told a man that they could caress but go no furthe
After some trifles, the man erected and she was
aroused.
The man entered her, but she sensed no excitement.
"In Winter in my Room" is surely Dickinson's most The man ejaculated, the same time she faked her
explicit treatment of her fear and mixed feelings orgasm. She left him.
about love and sex — if we dare to call a poem so
purely symbolic a fantasy explicit. The poem
exists only in a transcript, and so it cannot be
assigned even approximately to a period of Religious connotations
Dickinson's life. I think the poem is taking about dreams. I think Emily is sa
fear or what every situation you are currently in is escalate