Emily Dickinson’s poem, “[This is my letter to the World],” was written in 1863, when she was thirty-two, and not published until after her death. About the poem, Renée Bergland, a professor of literature and writing at Simmons University, writes in her essay “Letter to the World,” published in The Emily Dickinson Journal, Vol. 33, Nos. 1 & 2 (2024), “‘This is my letter to the World’ is not addressed to any of Dickinson’s correspondents. Rather, the ‘World’ that Dickinson addresses in the deceptively simple first line seems to be the large group of readers whom she hopes will read her writings after her death. As the poem continues, a second possibility emerges. When the poem claims that it is relaying ‘The simple News that Nature told—,’ it becomes clear that the invocation of ‘the World’ might be a gesture toward the Earth—the natural world. The ambiguity makes it interesting. Maybe Dickinson had both in mind: the reading public of the future and the planet Earth. Neither of these worlds were able to send letters to the poet. As the poem continues, its message seems to be as much about speaking for the natural world as it is about finding (or wanting) a worldwide audience. Dickinson’s letter is to (and for) a multivalent ‘World’—both a nonhuman natural world and a world of unknown human readers to come.”