After a poem is written, the poet loses complete control of it and is no longer responsible for the poem that they have written. Instead, responsibility is transferred to the reader. The reader decides what to do with what they read and how to interpret what they read. For example, when Emily Dickinson died, and people were able to read her poems, she lost control of  the way that her poems were interpreted, edited, and published. Her sister, Lavinia, found almost two thousand poems written and stashed away by Emily Dickinson. After reading the poems, Lavinia decided to take the task to edit and organize them for publication. Other authors like Thomas W. Higginson also decided to edit and publish her poems. According to the text “Emily Dickinson”, “Higginson was one of the first to publish volumes of Dickinson’s poetry, editing the work to make it seem as conventional as he could.” Higginson took possession of Emily Dickinson’s poems and translated it based on his own interpretation of it. He also took the liberty “to make it seem as conventional as he could” because he thought that the “world would not appreciate them” if he didn’t try to make them seem conventional. Another example that proves that a writer loses control and responsibility of their poems once they are written, is the following quote by Susan Howe: “What I put into words is no longer my possession. Possibility has opened. The future will forget, erase, or recollect and deconstruct every poem.” Meaning that after a poem is written, it is up to the reader whether the poem will be forgotten, erased or recollected and deconstructed. Howe also states, “There is a mystic separation between poetic vision and ordinary living.” Meaning that the reader can interpret the poem in a way that may not have been intended by the writer. Hence, once a poem is written, responsibility is transferred to the reader, who decides what to do with what they have read and how to interpret the reading.