A poem’s power comes from the reader even more so than the writer. A poet can transcribe a poem, which may just be a form of feeling for them, and it can lead to representing something much greater for an individual, group, or even an entire country. The Poems of Emily Dickson are a series of poems published after her death. She had no control over her poems at that point, leaving the interpretation and translations to be deciphered among those who took it upon themselves to do so. She had no say on if a poem was mistakenly translated. The power is transferred to the reader. Every word is up for interpretation in a poem and sometimes the reader will think of a message in the poem that was never meant to be there. In Emily Dickson’s poem 930, the first line says “The Poets light but Lamps – Themselves – go out – The Wicks they stimulate If vital Light”. A poet only lights the lamp but the ones who spread the message stimulate the meaning behind it are the ones who read them. Emily Dickson hid her poems. Had they not been discovered, there would have been no way for the poems to be transferred all over the world. That may have been her decision, but once they were discovered, the readers took it upon themselves to reproduce and publish the poems so that all may read it. In conclusion, a poem may have the passion and ambition of the writer behind the words, but once it is written, the responsibility shifts to the reader on what they will do with it.