The colors Dickinson employs in her poems emphasize her disjunction with the Victorian society in which she lived. When we study her colors, we study her themes. Death, for example, is either colorless or white, depending on the desired associations. Generalizations can be made about the colors she uses less frequently. We find black modifying containers, for example. White is not her most significant color, as many critics state. Instead, red, used most frequently, modifies humanity, a profound concern for this most reclusive poet.