One of the first things one notices about Emily Dickinson's poetry is her use of symbolism from nature. In her first poem, for example, her list of couples include the bee and the flower. In Poem 32, she writes that she will put a piece of jewelry decoration on at the prompting of nature "decorating" itself during the fall of the year. In Poem 60, Emily again uses this device of symbolism borrowed from nature, basing the poem on the idea that she was a rose while another person was mistletoe.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson