The Dickinson Sublime

mapping eternity

1735

After her death in 1865, 1735 poems were discovered in Emily Dickinson’s room, hidden and neatly organized into hand-sewn fascicles. A body of work left by a genius who stared into the face of eternity and took a step.

Sublime Threads

Dickinson’s work weaves an intricate web of themes, where life, death, and the infinite collide. These connections form an uncharted cosmos that beckons us to explore the mysteries she left behind.

How It Works

Position

Using an LLM-generated sentence embedding, each poem’s vectors are averaged and positioned in 3D space so that poems with similar themes naturally cluster together.

Color

A poem’s color is chosen by normalizing its x-coordinate within the embedding space to a predefined palette, so semantically similar poems share similar hues, with slight deterministic variation for clarity.

Connections

Connections link poems based on weighted shared themes and motifs, combined with the two nearest neighbors in embedding space, highlighting both thematic and semantic relationships.

Size

The size of each node reflects its total number of connections—poems with more related neighbors appear larger to emphasize their centrality in the network.

The Mind of Emily Dickinson

x: -927
y: 87
z: 1952

Explore the Poems

IDPoemDateStanzasLines
1Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,1850240
2There is another sky,1851114
3"Sic transit gloria mundi,"18521664
4On this wondrous sea1853312
5I have a Bird in spring1854530
6Frequently the woods are pink -1858312
7The feet of people walking home1858324
8There is a word1858218
9Through lane it lay - through bramble -1858417
10My wheel is in the dark!1858415