Emily Dickinson Research Paper

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Emily Dickinson was an Early American Poet who was born on December 10, 1830. Emily attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley for one year. She did not leave her house very often and visitors were uncommon, but the people she did meet in her lifetime made great impacts on her and her writing. She was particularly moved by Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she initially met on a trip to Philadelphia and he visited her home often. Some people believe that they might have been romantic but there is no evidence to back up that theory. The only relationship between them is confirmed by her writing that she called him “my closest earthly friend”. He left her to go to the west coast after a visit to her home in 1860 and many people believe …show more content…

Emily Dickinson's poetry was not recognized in her lifetime. She died May 15, 1886, in Amherst, Massachusetts. After her death, her family discovered forty handbound volumes containing almost 1,800 poems. She had assembled the booklets herself and put odd, undisclosed dashes in her poems. The first volume of her work was published in 1890 and her last volume was in 1955. You can get her full and original formatted poems in The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Some of her more famous poems are ‘It Sounded As If The Streets Were Running: It sounded as if the Streets were running And then - the Streets stood still - Eclipse - was all we could see at the Window And Awe - was all we could feel. By and By - the boldest stole out of his Covert To see if Time was there - Nature was in an Opal apron, Mixing fresher Air.’ ; ‘The Reticent Volcano Keeps: His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature will not tell the tale Jehovah told to her Can human nature not survive Without a listener? Admonished by her buckled lips Let every babbler be The only secret people keep Is Immortality’ ; and ‘Not Sickness Stains the Brave: Not sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning

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