Emily Dickinson and Poem #585

At the age of 10, Emily began attending the Amherst College, where she benefited a good education due to her father’s political standing in the community. It may seem strange that one of America’s greatest poets of all time spent most of her life in seclusion, yet she was able to write some of the most fascinating, imaginative poetry ever.

Before doing any of the research on Emily, she seemed to be fascinated by the train in the poem. New York: Oxford University Press,1995. This incredibly intelligent woman was reared in a world that had a major impact on her poetry, including poem #585. e Miles, was proposed to have been written during Emily’s most productive writing period, 1862. She seemed very positive towards the increased use of technology. In the following years, the hustle and bustle of !

the town and all the new faces arriving on the train were too much for her.

Her later life was spent mourning; Emily’s father died in 1874, Bowles in 1878, Holland in 1881, her nephew Gilbert died in 1883 and Emily’s mother and Charles Wadworth died in 1882. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966. This took Emily further and further away from her deeply missed father. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Publishing Co. These men, along with a few others, were suspected to be the love interests in Emily’s life and poetry, but no evidence has ever proved any romantic ties.