Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was an American poet that started writing since she was only a teenager; her education placed her among the most educated woman of the 18th century, even though she was not recognized during her lifetime, her poetry is distinguished by her unique writing style, Emily had the ability to write with ballad and hymn, she used unusual dashes and unconventional capitalization, in addition to her peculiar vocabulary, the combination of imagery to create an exceptional manuscript. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and raised by a very strict puritan family, Dickinson was very close to her family home and she refused to leave it. She did not want to have relationships or friends, at her eighteens she started …show more content…
In of her letters she wrote that her mother ‘’always always ran Home to Awe [Austin] when a child, if anything befell me. He was an awful Mother, but I liked him better than none’’ (web). Emily was an isolated woman with almost no friends, her brother married one of her very close friend, Susan Gilbert, but the marriage shortly became an unhappy one, and suddenly Emily’s relationship with Susan vanished because of it. Not only she lost one of her closest friend but also in the late 1855, she lost her mother, Emily and Lavinia had dedicated months of time caring for her mother because of her illness. Between 1851 and 1854, as many as thirty-three young acquaintances of Emily’s died, for this reason Emily began to dress only in white. Emily stopped seeing other people she was always indoors and she started to write more frequently, She wrote almost 1800 poems in her lifespan but she only published 7 of them while she was alive, all heavy edited, and