[3] Modern readers now, however, recognize the poem as one of her most erotic and find in the text Dickinson's understanding of sexual passion.

[3] Judith Farr writes that the opening spondees makes the poem theatrical, turbulent, and stormy, appropriate for the subject matter, and shows her interest in the Brontë sisters and Wuthering Heights.

[4] She also notes that "Wild Nights" is perhaps the most "Dickinsonian" of her poems in that it is "ironic, paradoxical, voluptuous, and terse all at once.

"[5] For the Poetry Society of America's Reading Through the Decades series, Sarah Arvio writes of the poem: She seems to want those wild winds, but she also wants to moor in 'thee.'

[7] The poem is the origin of the title Wild Nights with Emily, a 2018 biopic of Dickinson starring Molly Shannon.