Solitude: The state or quality of being alone or remote from others. Isolation in creative work is and onerous thing... (Chekhov 1996). Self-inflicted isolation is what it takes for one of the world's greatest and most influential poets to develop her unusual style. Growing up with and authoritarian father, in one of the nation's largest puritan societies, leaves no room for deviation from tradition; therefore, Emily Dickinson was a model child. Her reluctance to conform to what was considered the norm in Amherst, Massachusetts is what marked her adulthood along with illuminating her as an individual and a poet. Dickinson, with her unique style and almost two thousand poems has proven that she is a considerable influence in modern poetry. Her work is uncontested and adds to her reputation as one of the most innovative poets in nineteenth century American Literature.
             The second of three children, Emily Dickinson was born to Emily Norcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson on December 10, 1830. She was born into a society which had a minority of "unsaved" or non-professing Christians. Emily Dickinson was a great admirer of her grandfather Samuel Fowler Dickinson, who because of his interest in education founded the Amherst Academy. He moved to Ohio when Dickinson was two years old to assist with other educational ventures and died before she was eight, but what he did was enough for her to remain a legend in her mind and a standard by which she would judge all men.
             Being raised in a strict puritan society, Dickinson followed and obeyed all traditions that existed in nineteenth century Amherst throughout her childhood. Between the ages of twelve and thirteen years old, Dickinson was enrolled in Amherst Academy. There she made a few friends and a like a normal young girl she always participated in the periodic frolics with the other young children. Dickinson's life, even though strictly supervised and pressured by...