~Was a very energetic and outgoing women
~Was an American lyrical poet
~Her father was a lawyer
~Her family was known for politcal and educational activity
~ She went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for about one year
~But later she returned home because she was homesick
~While she lived in her house, no many people came to see her
~ The few people who came to visit her inspired her poetry
~ She was very influenced by Reverend Charles Wadsworth, in which she had met soon after
~Around the 1860's she kept herself far away from the outside world isolating herself from everything
~Most of her poems show her being alone and in want of someone or something
~Her poems included things like dashes, off-rhymes, and metaphors
~Her poetry is reflected by the poets of the 17th century England
~She lived a puritan life
~ Looked up to people like Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Keats.
~As well as Walt Whitman
~There were 1,150 letters inside the book The Letters of Emily Dickinson( which is actually only half of what she had written) \
~Some of her poems are:
<after a hundred years
<a word is dead
<this is my letter to the world
<tie the strings to my life, my lord
~Her first volume was published in 1890
~Her last volume was published in 1955
~ Died from Bright's disease on May 15th 1886
~After her death it was estimated that she wrote 1,700 poems
~ Her sister,Lavinia, co-edited her poems after her death and tried to get some of them published
~Emily Dickinson is now a well known modern poet in history
~She was claimed one of the most innovative poets in the 19th century
