Emily Dickinson Research Paper

Emily Dickinson is an American poet. She wrote very many poems. She did not leave her house for a long period of time. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is noted for her discussion of everyday activities and emotions, despite her self-imposed removal from the everyday world.

She was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts (source 1.) She is known to be depressed and reclusive with a small touch of humor at times, and she pours the emotions she has into her poems (source 1.) On May 15, 1886, Emily died at age fifty-five from Bright’s Disease (source 1.) After her death, her sister found about nine hundred of the 1,775 poems she wrote (source 1.) However, during her lifetime seven of the poems were published (source 1.)

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She attended school at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (source 1.) At Amherst Academy, she stayed there seven years before going to Mount Holyoke (source 5.) She stayed at the Seminary for a year, and that was the longest amount of time she spent away from home (source 5.) After 1862, she only left her home to go to Boston where she was helped with her eye trouble, and she then became known as the “myth of Amherst.” (source 1.) She was very reclusive, full of fear, and was like a nun (source 3.)

She is a religious poet more than a formal poet (source 1.) However, in her late teenage years she stopped going to church (source 1.) Although her friends and family all joined the church but Emily never joined (source 5.) Her brother did not join the church early; it was later when he joined (source 5.) Her mother joined the church a year after she was born, and her father and sister joined early (source 5.) She did not believe that God is omnipresent, but only somewhere in silence (source

In her early twenties writing became very important to her (source 5.) By the time she turned thirty-five she created more than 1,100 poems (source 5.) The poems test pain, joy, nature, grief, art, and joy (source 5.) She kept about eight hundred of the poems inside fascicles and kept them private (source 5.) Although some of her poems were published, she did not desire publication (source 3.) She wrote lines to replace others in her “finished” poems (source 3.) She simply replaced the lines because she thought they were not good enough (source 3.)

Her poetry is so unique by how she uses capital letters and dashes out of place in her poems (source 3.) The intelligence and liveliness in her work make the body of her poetry (source 1.) The best known poems of hers are the ones about death and afterlife (source 3.) She put her emotional loss and mental questioning into her poetry (source 1.) Death of friends and relatives brought up questions about death and immortality to her (source 5.) “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed,” shows her dedication to rhyme (source 3.) It shows how potent the world is to her ( source 3.) “Wild Nights,” is about her late romance with her father’s friend, Judge Otis Lord ( source 3.) He asked to marry Emily but she refused (source 3.) Even though she refused, she did consider at one time (source