A sense of belonging is an innate desire to identify with groups while simultaneously, when this feeling is shattered by choice, we must ultimately “belong”. Through Dickinson's poetic depictions in This is My Letter to the World and The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise, she expresses the conflict within belonging by juxtaposing the futility of acceptance while forming one's individual identity. In contrast, modern illustrations of belonging are adopted in Luhrmann's exotic film Australia and Doris Lessing's short story Flight. Utilizing a plethora of literary, poetic, and cinematic devices, each composer explores the paradoxical nature of belonging ultimately reflecting our desire for truth, while satisfying our thirst for approval. Emily Dickinson depicts the intrinsic nature of belonging as conflicts and tensions arise through understanding. of his identity while conforming to society in This Is My Letter To The World. The emphatic title of this poem acts as a conflict in itself, with a "letter" acting as a symbol of intimacy but it is proclaimed "to the world" as a hyperbole incongruous with the usual representation of a letter. The sympathetic speech referring to “my letter” evokes the speaker's marginalized literary voice in the context of the position and role of women in her society. The "world" is personified as it "never wrote to me" also implies its non-belonging as it could be "the simple news" which describes its pure truth in understanding the complexities of life as an implication depth of nature. lessons. The last line of the first stanza expresses the embrace of nature as majestic with connotations of grace and dignity while it is qualified by the adjective "tender" implying the...... middle of paper .. .... comfort that it has to adapt. to the idea of ​​Alice being “old enough to court” and contemplating life without belonging. “Then, gripped by the pain of loss, he lifted the bird to his wrist and watched it fly away,” reality seeps in as he realizes that one day his granddaughter will have to leave, this is the nature of life. This echoes Emily Dickinson's underlying ideal in The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise, that life must be endured without those we love. A sense of belonging sparks a better understanding of one's true identity. While Luhrmann and Lessing employ a range of literary and cinematic techniques to emphasize this notion, Dickinson infuses a nihilistic interpretation full of paradoxes. However, each composer effectively represents our intrinsic need to belong and our fundamental thirst for acceptance and identity through their respective textual forms..