APPENDIX 1
Biography of Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on 10 December 1830 from prestigious parents, Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She is the middle child from two siblings, William Austin Dickinson and Lavinia Norcross Dickinson. She is a nineteenth century talented poet who wrote thousands of poems. She spent most of her lifetime at her father’s house in Massachusetts until her death. Her life is stable as other women in Massachusetts, but after her loss of family’s on death, she keeps her own life in her father house and keeps the space with outer world. She used to communicate only with her friends and relatives. During her lifetime, she withdrew her social interaction since her twenties and buried herself out of public attention until she dead (15 May 1886). (Leiter. 2007)
Death is most highlight attention of Emily Dickinson poetry which mentions frequently in her literary work together with frustration, suffering, pain, sorrow, grief and loneliness(Roy, 2015). Roy argues that Emily Dickinson has a big contribution to the death for her poems. She represses her own feeling and creates great poetry as the manifestation of loss especially losing beloved people like mother, cousin, brother or even husband.
Sources: Leiter, S.
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Her father is Otto Emil Plath and her mother is Aurelia Schober Plath. She is an older sister for Warren Plath. She was born in great family after all. She got full attention from both parents until her brother was born two years later. She thought that her parents’ attention taken by her brother that caused her lack of loving from her parents. It was the first reason of her disappointment toward her life. Later, when her father died, left great painful in her heart as losing a figure of a father. She influenced too much of her father death and tried to end her life by taking sleeping pills but she