Does the poem "Precious Words" by Emily Dickinson support or negate that a special set of circumstances is required to evoke delight?"Precious...

In regards to Dickinson's poem "He ate and drank the
precious words", special circumstances are needed to evoke
delight.

What Dickinson is illustrating in the poem is that
one must look to objects, concrete things, in order to find delight. The speaker is
illustrating the fact that a man, facing an uncontrollable history, looks to a book
(presumably the Bible) in order to find hope.

Here, the
special set of circumstances is the man's misfortunate past, he is poor and growing old
("his frame was dust"). In order to find peace with his life (delight), the man turns to
the words of a book in order to give him hope and allow him to loosen his
spirit.

Downtrodden by his lack of monetary wealth and his
weakening body, the man looks to "precious words" in order to find the strength to go
on.

Therefore, the man is looking to a specific place ("a
special set of circumstances") in order to find delight in his
life.