Biography of Emily Dickinson essays

Biography of Emily Dickinson essays Emily Dickinson, one of America's most famous poets, was born in Amherst on December 10, 1830, to a very prominent family. Her parents were Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. The family included three children: Austin, Emily, and Lavinia. Emily was educated at Amherst Academy, the institution her grandfather helped found. She spent a year at the Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, but left because she did not like the religious environment and because her parents asked her to come home. In her twenties, Emily led a busy social life, but she became more reclusive with each passing year. By her thirties, she stayed at home and withdrew when visitors arrived. She developed a reputation as a myth, because almost never seen and when people did catch the sight of her she was always wearing white. Emily cared for her parents in their later years and was a companion to her sister Lavinia, who also lived at home for her entire life. While Emily withdrew from physical contact with people she did not withdraw from them mentally. Emily kept in touch with her friends by writing them letters. Emily often included poetry with her letters to her friends. Her friends encouraged her to publish them but after an attempt to do so Emily did not try again. The eight poems that were published in her lifetime were primarily poems submitted by her friends without her permission. The idea of finding out who inspired Emily to write so prolifically has intrigued literary researchers for decades. For a while the most popular assumption was that she had a male mentor encouraging her, some have also speculated that she was in love with, and others speculate that she had a relationship with a judge. She may have been in love with both or either of these men; its hard to confirm or deny the nature of her involvement's with them. But the evidence that is available seems to show that the person who mos ...