Emily Dickinson Accomplishments

Emily Dickinson is one of the most recluse poets when it comes to releasing her work during the 1800s. This fantastic poet's life began in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830 in the middle of the Puritan “reign”. Emily was the daughter of Edward Dickinson, a politician during the time, and mother Emily Dickinson. Emily began her descent into poetry when she was in her teen years. It all started with her education when she attended Amherst Academy as well as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Major elements that had effect of Emily’s writing were the many deaths of friends and relatives for example her cousin Sophia Holland, having almost a form of secrecy not really publishing the thousands of works she had created, and the form of letters that she would send to family members as well as romantic partners. Death was not a very uncommon occurrence in this time period, as unsanitary as it was in these Puritan colonies. The line of deaths was just never ending when it came to Emily’s life, it all started with her cousin Sophia which caused the questioning of death and immortality for emily. It continued with her father, mother, nephew, a man named Otis Lord, and a woman by the name of Helen Jackson. All the people were buried in the town cemetery which was located close to emily’s home. With the constant burials, emily could not help but use that to

She tried multiple time to get her work published by many different editors but it never fully panned out. By the time Emily passed away she had only published seven poems which is nowhere enough to even get the slightest bit of recognition. Many of Emily’s writings were in the forms of letter to her friends and family. Emily was not one to go out of her way to share her work with other people. When Emily got very serious into her works during her twenties and this is when she gained a relationship with Thomas Wentworth Higginson who featured her in his