"There is another Loneliness"

By Emily Dickinson
[Analysis]
There is another Loneliness [1]
That many die without -- [2]
Not want of friend occasions it [3]
Or circumstances of Lot [4]
But nature, sometimes, sometimes thought [5]
And whoso it befall [6]
Is richer than could be revealed [7]
By mortal numeral -- [8]
Poem 1116 [F1138]
"There is another Loneliness"
Analysis by David Preest
[Poem]
Loneliness is usually occasioned or caused by 'want of friend' or by the circumstances in which fate has placed us. But there is 'another
Loneliness' which happens to a person absorbed by nature or deep in thought. Such a person is richer than could be revealed by our usual
assessments.
Emily is perhaps hinting at her own rich loneliness. The whole of line 5 is a third subject of the verb 'occasions' after 'want of friend' and
'circumstance of Lot.'
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