Indeed, expressing her own failure to emulate and to equal the language of nature, Dickinson indicates a profound reverence towards it but at the same time her feeling of inadequacy masks a deeper awareness of certain truths and meanings, precious like jewels, and of the fact that her high form of expression can hide them: the metaphor "Depths of Ruby" links, as in other poems, jewels with flowers (thus, with poems), in whose deep cup are concealed the precious and "undrained" depths
"That certain truths must remain unspoken is a roundabout way of saying that one knows what these truths are" and this "suggests the speaker possess a superior knowledge beyond utilitarian language. The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense of appropriate restraint in one's own writing " (Domhnall,2000).
In the seventh line, mentioning the hummingbird which feeds nectar from the flower's deep cup (www.britannica.com), Emily is inviting Ms Flint to feed on these profound, hidden and endless truths, the poem's nectar, exploring deeper its meanings , putting her lips to the rose and sip it. The poem's nectar is nothing but the poet's intimacy expressed in her own work; for this reason the word 'me' has replaced 'rose' in the last line.
2.2. Erotic connotation of the poem.
However, even considering the simile between nature and poetry as the focusing point, the only words that precede verses in their original form of letter text can suggest a different interpretation of the whole poem: "You and I, didn't finish talking. Have you room for the sequel, in your Vase?". The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.
