en the sexually explicit poems that were written to men from the ones that were written to women. Poem # 616 is an example of a poem that was written to a man. This poem blatantly exhibits Dickinsons sexual intercourse with a man and more specifically her description of an orgasm. The first stanza has both Dickinson and her lover orgasm at the same time. Just as her lover is reaching his sexual peak, Dickinson (much to her surprise) started to reach hers. In the second stanza Dickinson states, I sang firm-even-chants, she is describing the feelings of rapture and bliss that she experiences as she is going through the orgasm. The third stanza describes the connection or closeness that they felt as their bodies soothed and recovered from their moment of ecstasy. The fourth stanza acts as an ode to her companions low Arch of Flesh (penis), which brought her so much pleasure. The fifth stanza in the poem is an expression of the joyous sentiments she felt after having experienced something as inexplicably pleasurable as an orgasm. In the last stanza Dickinson refers to the power and control that she has over mans quest for sexual climax.The sexual poems that Dickinson wrote to or about women were more discreet than what she exhibited in poem # 616. In poem # 211 Dickinson uses nature as a metaphor to illustrate the performance of a homosexual act between two women. Come slowly, Eden!Lips unused to thee,Bashful, sip thy jasmines,As the fainting bee,Reaching late his flower,Round her chamber humsCounts his nectars-enters,And is lost in balms!The first line in the poem has a double meaning. First, it can simply be seen as one woman calling for a woman to come towards her. However, the first line could also be alluding to a womans sexual orgasm. In the rest of the poem, Dickinson is calling out to a woman who is not experienced in feminine homosexual acts. She is telling the woman she admires to bring her bashful, lips unused in...
