emily dickinson

Emily Dickinson was an American poet, she was born on December 10th,1830. She wrote poems for children and adults. Emily Dickinson isolated herself from the world and just focused her whole life on writing. No one knew who she was, and no one knew her poems until after her death. She spent her life in Amherst, Massachusettes.

Emily's poetry had alot to do with the people around her; although she didn't spend that much time with them, they still had an impact. One of them was Charles Wadsworth. Emily was not afraid to speak her mind or to be heard. Her poems are based on her emotions, like any other poets, but hers truly spoke out about her loneliness as a American Citizen. They weren't always sad, though; some of them were about her happiness and her view and perspective of the world.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops - at all
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard
And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm
I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest Sea
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of Me.

Emily admired the poetry of Robert and Ellizabeth Barret Browning, and also the work of John Keats. The two poets are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice. The first volume of Emily Dickinson's work was published in 1890 and then ended in 1955. Unfortuneatly she died in 1886, in her home town of Amherst.

One of her famous poems was:

T'was a Long parting, but the time

T'was a long parting, but the time
For interview had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time

These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another’s eyes.

No lifetime set on them,
Apparelled as the new
Unborn, except they had beheld,
Born everlasting now.

Was bridal e’er like this?
A paradise, the host,
And cherubim and seraphim
The most familiar guest.

Emily Dickinson contributed many poems and her imagination and voice will always jump off the page into our minds. Her frequent rhyming, pronouns, metaphores and literature was always popular, and even though no one really noticed until she died, she is still popular, having had a modern poetic mind.