Emily Dickinson: The Lonely Poet
Emily Dickinson was largely known for her morbid writings that seemed to mirror her own life. Her best works were written after the death of a close friend or family member. Emily Dickinson's loneliness, deceiving loves, and family members deaths greatly influenced her writings that were a mere attempt to let others know of her problems.Probably the most important influence for Emily Dickinson was the time perio in which she was born. She was born into what seemed to be a kind of intellectual time period for Amherst, Massachusetts. The time and place included such distinguished poets as Noah Webster, Helen Hunt Jackson, Eugene Field, and Robert Frost. Dickinson had the perfect surrounding for an aspiring poet; a very prominent family and many renowned poets to stimulate her desire to write (Longsworth xii). Emily Dickinson was born in a brick house on December 10, 1830 in a little town called Amherst, Massachusetts (Longsworth 12). According to Noah Webster, who lived up the street from Dickinson from 1812-1822, she was born in a mansion. His definition of a mansion was a building with four or more chimneys; the Dickinson's house
Many of these loves ended in deceit and sorrow. The only people she would open up to were her sister, Lavinia, and her brother, Austin. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity. After all her emotional turbulence Dickinson was writing 20 poems a year (Longsworth 116). The doctors said she had 'Nervous prostration' . This last stanza was later missing until Johnson inserted it in his edition of Dickinson's poets. He died alone in strange su!rroundings (Longsworth 137). Emily Dickinson was the only Anglo-American poet of her century whose work exhibits the perfect literary position in which is possible, the fusion of sensibility and thought" (Sewall 23). At the age of twenty Dickinson's education ceased (Longsworth 65). The "Dews" seem to be flesh passing into death. Edward hardly expressed his emotions towards his family, although they never questioned his love for !them.
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