Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Died May 15, 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts at the age of 55. Emily was an American poet, her middle name was Elizabeth. She has almost 1,800 poems written and less than a dozen were published during her lifetime. Emily wasn’t married, and her friendships that she had mostly relied on mail/ letters. Later in Emily’s lifetime she started feeling traumatized for the reason that a lot of people that were close to her died. For example her cousin that was her best friend became ill and died from a disease called typhus. Later in her life she remembered that moment and she wrote a quote that is "it seemed to me I should die too if I could not be permitted to watch over …show more content…
And she also wrote a quote for that: "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church . I keep it, staying at Home". After that she finished the Academy and started attending a female Seminary Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke, She only attended the seminary for 10 months. She later started finding something in baking for her family and she enjoyed going to local events and other things. Years later she again became depressed or you could call it melancholy. Emily’s closest friend became Susan Gilbert, her sister-in-law. Emily didn’t have a lot of visitors. Emily started to ‘keep” herself away from the world in the 1860s, in that time she spent a lot of time with her family. Dickinson admired a lot of poets and they were ones that influenced her poems. Emily Dickinson wasn’t recognized by her poems till she died. When she died her family found 1,800 poems in her room. The way that the poems were made was by “ folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper and copying what seem to be the final versions of the poems.”