The poem XIV by Emily Dickinson shows that at one time the speaker was religious, and she went through her rebaptism wholeheartedly, believing in god and what she was doing fully. In the poem, Emily mentions how she was baptized before without choice but now it was done consciously, and of grace. She reveals specific details that tell the reader that she is indeed talking about a spiritual baptism, “I’m ceded, I’ve stopped being theirs: The name they dropped upon my face with water, in the country church.” When someone is baptized they are typically immersed in a font of holy water (or they can have holy water poured over them). The speaker mentions how she is “ceded” and has “stopped being theirs” because she has been poured over or immersed
