Emily Dickinson
Wrote Nearly 1800 Poems
Introduction
There have been hundreds of books that have changed the changed the world because of their influence, purpose, etc. Emily Dickinson has written over 1,000 poems throughout her life. Dickinson has a legacy of her own, let alone her poetry. Her poetry has a huge legacy and impact on people still, even after her death.
About the Author
Emily Dickinson is an American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in December of 1830. Dickinson attended an all-boys school as a teenager. Her grandfather was the founder of the Amherst College, she also attended the college for seven years. Despite how religious people were back then, Dickinson never really went to church. She has a brother, Austin, who became an attorney and a sister named Lavinia; she never married. Her father was a member of Congress for one term. Her mother, Norcross Dickinson did not believe Emily was very smart at all, despite all the schools and classes she took. One of her friends had passed away from typhus, resulting in Dickinson’s obsession with death. Benjamin Franklin Newton was like a father figure to Emily after her family became friends with him. Dickinson became sheltered after the death of Newton; he died of tuberculosis. Emily also had a friend, “Among her peers, Dickinson’s closest friend and adviser was a woman named Susan Gilbert, who may have been an amorous interest of Dickinson’s as well” (Emily Dickinson Biography). Amorous meaning sexual desire or showing feelings for. “She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as John Keats” (Emily). Dickinson died in 1886 due to heart failure; she was only 55.
About the Book
Dickinson wrote around 1800 poems in her lifetime. There is a book called The Complete poems of Emily Dickinson. This book has all of her poems. A few of the poems in the book are “I taste a liquor never brewed”, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”, “Wild nights — Wild nights!”, literally hundreds more. With the number of poems Dickinson wrote, she had many themes that went with them. A list of some of the themes is: religion/relationship with God, death, love, immortality, pain, nature, conclusion, and many more. She wrote her poems in a specific style. Her poems are normally shorter. The single speaker usually expresses feelings. A majority of her poems do not have titles. For example, the poem called “508”, that is just the number the that poem correlates with.
The Legacy
Dickinson wrote around 1800 poems in her lifetime. There is a book called The Complete poems of Emily Dickinson. This book has all of her poems. A few of the poems in the book are “I taste a liquor never brewed”, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”, “Wild nights — Wild nights!”, literally hundreds more. With the number of poems Dickinson wrote, she had many themes that went with them. A list of some of the themes is: religion/relationship with God, death, love, immortality, pain, nature, conclusion, and many more. She wrote her poems in a specific style. Her poems are normally shorter. The single speaker usually expresses feelings. A majority of her poems do not have titles. For example, the poem called “508”, that is just the number the that poem correlates with.
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