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 * __Analysis (Typed):__** One of the controlling ideas is to be cautious of your actions and decisions because you could lose your soul. The speaker starts off by personifying the soul as an individual that can make her own decisions. Souls are part of a spiritual belief that everyone has one, but the soul is that person and acts like their conscious and personality. The poem is saying that If you make too many wrong decisions, she will leave you and you can't get her back because she turns to stone. She will be there for eternity because stones last forever, but can't respond or change. Once you make a bad decision, it's as if you are disgracing her (and yuorself) so you lose your soul and you no longer belong in high society. So inturn, the soul can chose her own society, but if the person she belongs to ruins it for her, then she will be unforgiving.

Another possibility could be that the speaker knows the soul personally because they've "known her from an ample nation." So the speaker has some close connection with the soul. It could be possible that it is their own soul and they are trying to warn others to treat their soul like royalty before they ruin their relationship.

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Emily Dickinson “The Soul selects her own Society—“ (821)

The Soul selects her own Society— Then—shuts the Door— To her divine Majority— Present no more—

Unmoved—she notes the Chariots—pausing— At her low Gate— Unmoved—an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat—

I’ve known her—from an ample nation— Choose One— Then—close the Valves of her attention— Like Stone—