This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me
The simple News that Nature told,
With tender Majesty
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see
For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen
Judge tenderly — of Me
Dickinson’s rhyme and meter are the only ways that would actually indicate that this is a poem and not what she says it is, a letter. Regardless, Dickinson is still trying to get across to her readers a simple point: do not judge me based off my poems. She is writing to an invisible audience and had no idea who would come across her work. Just as we are invisible to her, she is equally as invisible to us; we have never met or truly understood Dickinson other than her shallow biography and her poetry that was found and published. Because of this, she begs her readers not to base her off of her poems; she simply wrote what “nature told” her. 

This is My Letter to the World