Ms. Vulgar Name
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” ("BrainyQuote", 2016)
This quote is by Ms. Vulgar Name, Emily Dickinson. No matter how immature her name may sound, she was a truly inspiring woman who made great poetry that can be looked upon till the end of time. Now, don’t confuse Emily Dickinson with Charles Dickinson, they are in no way related and they were born in completely different times. Even though Dickinson was a female writer, she destroyed stereotypes about many women across the nation. Emily Dickinson was a solitudinarian that had phenomenal talent.
Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was a politician and lawyer. Emily’s mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, was also a recluse like her daughter and suffered from mild depression. When she was 10 years old, her and her sister, Lavina, went to Amherst Academy, a school for boys. During her 7 years at the academy, she was regularly absent because of her illness. In 1846, she took a liking to her new principal and gave him the name “Master”. He was one of the many older men Dickinson latched onto. When she was 13, her cousin, Sophia Holland, died from illness and Dickinson became severely depressed. Sophia’s death was the first
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Any of her poems that were published at the time were modified to adhere ordinary standards of her time. A full collection of her poems weren’t published until 1955 called “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”. When Dickinson died, her family found over 1,000 poems and eventually her early editors published them. Dickinson’s friend, Helen Hunt, encouraged her to publish her poems for the world to see. Some of Dickinson’s poems were published in the Springfield Republican, for 10 years. In 1864, some of Dickinson’s edited poems were published in the Drum Beat to raise money for Union