Emily Dickinson’s Inspiration Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson was born into a family that was wealthy, powerful, and Christian with firm beliefs. She lived in the late nineteenth century, from 1830-1886. She grew up the Amherst in Massachusetts in the United States of America. Dickinson was educated; which was not very common for a woman who lived during the era of the industrial revolution. She did some traveling throughout Massachusetts in her earlier years of life. However, toward the late 1860s she kept herself secluded from society. Many of the towns people let their imaginations run wild about Emily Dickinson and why she kept herself hidden from the world. Only a handful of her poems were published while she was alive. Her poetry was seen …show more content…
These ties showed Dickinson a side of the world that she wanted nothing to do with. Even though she did not participate in the social activities and regular outings that come with the life that she was born and raised in, it helped her to realize what she wanted to focus on in her life. Her poetry has little to nothing to do with social events, status, or norms. “Although nineteenth-century politics, economics, and social issues do not appear in the foreground of her poetry, Dickinson lived in a family environment that was steeped in them: her father was an active town official and served in the General Court of Massachusetts, the state senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives” (Meyer 824). Emily Dickinson’s family’s educational ties enabled her to attend school and be granted a formal …show more content…
She uses a whimsical tone throughout all of her poetry. Emily Dickinson used every aspect of her life blended together to produce her skillful use of words. She only allowed seven of her 1,775 poems to be published while she was alive despite the encouragement she received from her friends and family. Dickinson used a creative combination of her privileged upbringing, acquired education, segregation from society, and her experiences of her sexual desires to articulate her interpretations of the way she viewed the world around her. She wrote with such passion, dedication, and emotion. Emily Dickinson took inspiration from all of her life surrounding and put her unique spin on