She implies this by demonstrating her writing ability in “Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church.” Dickinson understood that the individual is responsible for his or her choices, like her fellow poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson provided information on how to become more in tune with nature in his work known as Self-Reliance. Emerson states in Self-Reliance that “envy is ignorance; this imitation is suicide; that he must take himself, for better and for worse, as his part” (2). Emerson, like Dickinson, agreed with the idea of ​​becoming healthy in the individual. Becoming healthy in the individual can be achieved by becoming in harmony with