This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me
The simple News that Nature told,
With tender Majesty
The speaker in this poem, like so many of Dickinson’s, both reaches out to the reader and attempts to the world at bay. If “this” is the speaker’s “letter to the World” there is an implied desire that it be read, and perhaps even responded to, but the speaker does not offer more than “this.” The speaker asks the reader to both acknowledge the communication and be satisfied that this is enough. 
 Though one should always be cautious about equating a poem’s speaker with its author, Dickinson tempts her readers in this direction even more than most. Dickinson was famously isolated for much of her life, and in many ways her writing was her primary contact with the world beyond her home.
This is My Letter to the World