Emily Dickinson's Background:
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. She went to school at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. While she was there, she received severe homesickness and had to drop out of school to live at her house. She had only attended that school for one year and after she dropped out of school, she really didn't have any friends to come in contanct with. Although she did have some friends, and her friends realized that she had a huge impact on her thoughts and poetry.
When Emily was going to Pennysylvania for college, she met a man that changed her life, Reverend Charles Wadsworth. He was very supportive of her. Emily called him her "closest earthly friend." In 1860, she lived her life inside, but she didn't just do nothing, she did major reading. While she was at home she also spent most of her time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, loved state and national politics. Her brother, Austin Dickinson, attended a law school and became an attorney. Her younger sister, Lavinia , also stayed inside like Emily.
Since she lived most of her life in her house, she wrote a lot of poems. She was influenced to write poems by the Metaphysical poets. The Metaphysical poets a group of British lyric poets of the 17th century that shared an intrest in metaphysical -- metaphysics is a branch of philosophy -- concerns and share a common way of investigating them. Most of her poems were about her loniliness, good memories, and happiness of her life time. Eventually she died in 1886 in her house in Ahmerst. Her first published poem was in 1890 and her last published poem was in 1955. After her death, her family discovered 40 volumes, with about 1800 poems. The books have been found sewn and folded stationary of about five sheets of paper that seem to have been her final copy of her books. Her hand written peoms had dashes of all sorts of angles. Some horizontal and some vertical. Nobody really knows why she the dashes are in all different angles.
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. She went to school at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. While she was there, she received severe homesickness and had to drop out of school to live at her house. She had only attended that school for one year and after she dropped out of school, she really didn't have any friends to come in contanct with. Although she did have some friends, and her friends realized that she had a huge impact on her thoughts and poetry.
When Emily was going to Pennysylvania for college, she met a man that changed her life, Reverend Charles Wadsworth. He was very supportive of her. Emily called him her "closest earthly friend." In 1860, she lived her life inside, but she didn't just do nothing, she did major reading. While she was at home she also spent most of her time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, loved state and national politics. Her brother, Austin Dickinson, attended a law school and became an attorney. Her younger sister, Lavinia , also stayed inside like Emily.
Since she lived most of her life in her house, she wrote a lot of poems. She was influenced to write poems by the Metaphysical poets. The Metaphysical poets a group of British lyric poets of the 17th century that shared an intrest in metaphysical -- metaphysics is a branch of philosophy -- concerns and share a common way of investigating them. Most of her poems were about her loniliness, good memories, and happiness of her life time. Eventually she died in 1886 in her house in Ahmerst. Her first published poem was in 1890 and her last published poem was in 1955. After her death, her family discovered 40 volumes, with about 1800 poems. The books have been found sewn and folded stationary of about five sheets of paper that seem to have been her final copy of her books. Her hand written peoms had dashes of all sorts of angles. Some horizontal and some vertical. Nobody really knows why she the dashes are in all different angles.
