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-she uses her knowledge of science to critic it but also admire it. she wants to challenge peoples belief in god but also support their believes be her diction and rhyme scheme.

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Nevertheless, combined with imagination and intuition, science offers, she is convinced, the most practicable methods by which she may inspect the world. Although in numerous poems she may distrust and even disdain science, in this one attitude she is unswerving: she cannot proceed without it. More than an experimental method, science becomes her way to poetry.

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the key to her art--as she applies the objective methods of science to her exploration of the phenomenal world, she evolves an ingenious strategy: she comes to use science both as counter to her spiritual ideals and as proof of their validity.

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In general, however, Dickinson remains too deeply infused with the rationalistic spirit of science, and with her own sensual delight in nature, to submit freely to her impulse toward immortality

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Dickinson, while often critical of science, remains in the end respectful toward it

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Dickinson clings to science tenaciously throughout her poetic career

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Dickinson first attempts to grasp the material world, through reason and science, as firmly as she can

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the whole drift of her work challenges the notion that we can know God's secrets on earth through revelation

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more notable than Dickinson's scientific reading and her use of a scientific vocabulary is the general tendency in her work to base her transcendent vision upon concrete verifiable data

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Jack Capps has also considered her wide reading in the science of the day.

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William Howard, one of the few critics who acknowledges her preoccupation with science, has shown in a seminal essay on her diction that "the Amherst poet" derives a substantial vocabulary from "technical terms of one sort or another" or from "words generally found only in scientific or academic discourse.

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Dickinson often diminishes the leviathan power of science through both wit and humor, she appears, at the same time, too deeply rationalistic to spurn its method as a source of truth.

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Yet one of her chief strengths as a writer--a feature largely ignored by her critics--remains her daring and original use of science.

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Dickinson well understood the flaws inherent in the scientific and empirical approach to otherworldly experience.

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the conflict that these lines suggest--between science and reason on the one hand and intuition and imagination on the other--pervades her work.