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EMILY DICKINSON

BREIF LIFE DESCRIPTION: Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachuetts. She was born to rich family, and later became a poet. After she studied at Amherst Academy for seven years she spent a short time at Mount Holyolke Female Seminary before returning to her familys house.

As a poet less than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime, even though she wrote almost. The work that was published during her lifetime were hugely changed to fit the poetic rules of the time. The poetry she wrote was unusual for her time. The poems ussually lacked titals, contained short lines, and many of her poems were about death and immortality.

Many of her poems were not published untill after her death.

EARLY LIFE: As a young child she proved to be a very bright and inteligent girl. She often created stories and poems that often amused her classmates. Emily's father was very strict, she once said that "his heart was pure and terrible." Her early introduction into religeon often influenced her poems.

ADULT LIFE: During her adult life she spent most of her time secluded indoors. After many deaths of her friends and aquatinces she soon went into a deep depression. After her deep, dark depression Emily reviwed poems. Later in life, while in Boston, suffered a stroke and died on June 16, 1874. She never married but had intimate relationships with both men and women. Portorait of Emily Dickinson.     HARDSHIPS: During her life Emmily Dickinson experienced deep derpression like her mother. She lived in her her whole life in her father's house and often withdrew to social situations. Many of her friends, family, and aquatinses died during her life. Also her poetry was often banned.

 She often wrote poems about thing other poets usually didn't. Things like death and love. (this one is called,, "because I could not wait for death")

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