Exploring the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson The life of Emily Dickinson is an interesting thing to study. Dickinson lived a very different lifestyle than most people, then and now. Her lifestyle and how she was raised also affected the way she wrote most of her poetry. Emily Dickinson was an amazing poet, as well as a strange wonder. Emily Dickinson’s rather odd life started when she born on December 10, 1830. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. From there she lived with her father and mother, then at the age of two, she was sent away to Boston after her mother had difficulties giving birth to Dickinson’s sister. The separation between Dickinson and her mother strengthened the bond between Dickinson and her mother, while strengthening the bond between Dickinson and her father. This affected her so much that she even stated that “I never had a mother”(Thomas 210). When Dickinson was sixteen, she enrolled at Mount Holyoke college. When she left for college she was happy, but it wasn’t too soon after leaving that she became sad and homesick(Thomas 211). Then in 1848, at the age of 18, Dickinson came back home to her family in Amherst. Later in her life, Dickinson went into forty years of isolation, until she died. Dickinson never wanted to leave her room, let alone her house. …show more content…
Dickinson was directly influenced by her being raised in a conservative and Puritan styled way. Some of her poems speak of God and such things related, but they were all written around the same time and she never wrote any more about it. Although Dickinson never left her house, she was an avid reader. She particularly liked English poets from the 1600s. She was also influenced by poets during her time, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Critics say Dickinson’s poems are fairly short compared to all other poets. They also say that she had developed her own style and type of