Emily Dickinson was one to keep to herself. She spent most of her lifetime in the family home that was built in 1813 by her grandfather. She faced so many hardships that are believed for her outburst of wanting to write poetry. She loved school but thought that she needed to get a higher level of education. Emily Dickinson was an American poet whose poetry was not recognized during her lifetime but was known for her interesting way of writing her emotions. She was born on December 10 1820 in Amherst Massachusetts. She was daughter of Edward Dickinson an attorney and Emily Norcross. She had an older brother Austin Dickinson and a younger sister Lavina Dickinson who were her companions during her lifetime. She studied at the Amherst academy for 7 years. At age 15 she left the academy to get a higher level of education. During her years she admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barret Browning as well as John Keats. Her older brother married her best friend Susan Huntington Gilbert and had three children. …show more content…
While she attended Amherst academy she felt close to her principal who was her first master Leonard Humphrey. After his death in 1850 when she started growing her poetic interest. During the 1850s, Emily’s strongest and most affectionate relationship was with Susan Gilbert. She sent her over 3 hundred letters. She shared her poems with her close friends and her family. She started to copy her poems and stitching them up into booklets. Although she was a poet she also found herself as a writer of letters. Her existing letters date from 1842 when she was 11 years old to just before her death. Although a few of her poems were published in newspapers, they were printed anonymously and apparently without her