Emily Dickinson — American Poet
Emily Dickinson hated the idea of selling her poetry and becoming famous and so she was not famous during her time.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. — Emily Dickinson
Everyone is loved by someone, and to give love is the greatest thing about life. It’s truly living, and it is everlasting!
Emily Dickinson’s poems always touched my heart. She wrote what we feel in our heart actually what we are not able to express through our heart she wrote it in her poems. So today I felt to write about her
Emily Dickinson was born on 10th December 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She died in Amherst in 1886. She was born in a very conservative puritanical family in New York in Amherst.
Life of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson composed nearly 1800 poems, but fewer than a dozen were published in her lifetime. She was probably one who hardly published in her lifetime; she wrote around 1,500 poems but barely any of these was ever published during her lifetime and so when we talk about Emily Dickinson during her lifetime. There is no mention of her in contemporary literary magazine studies. As nobody interviewed her so she was not able to talk about her idea of poetry normally available to other poets.
Now, before reading her poetry it becomes important to know certain facts about her life. She was an introvert. She was the favorite daughter of her father and in 1874 her father died, she was affected by his father’s death and this can be the reason for writing about death in her poetry. When, later in life, she went on a trip to Philadelphia, where she met Reverend Charles Wadsworth. He was the only important figure in her life and ended up moving to the west coast, adding to her loneliness. Dealing with death, and how she mentions death in many of her poems come from her father’s death and the loneliness in her poems comes from the Reverend moving away from her. Throughout her writings, her life is greatly shown by her loneliness and also depression because of how she talks about death.
The Literary period Influenced Her writings.
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830, so she was a Romantic period poet because the movement of Romanticism began in the 1800s. She admired the poetry of Robert Barrette Browning, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, and John Keats.
She rarely would leave her room and spent most of her life in her father’s house. Thus, this affected Emily Dickinson’s poems, which were often dealing with her inner emotions. In her poetry, she was always trying to get at the heart of things. Thus, this contributed to creating her unique writing style.
During her time, it was believed that poetry requires a person to have a very high level of intellect which women lacked. And therefore, it was thought that women could only write prose while poetry was reserved for men.
However, Emily Dickinson challenged the realities of women in patriarchal societies and provided an inspiring female voice that opposed the doctrines of marriage and patriarchy by writing incredible poems in her time. But, she excusably contradicts herself when she too submits, like her siblings, to her father’s will. She asks him for permission when she wants to write late at night, furthermore noting that no husband would have granted such permission.
Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of 17th century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.
In conclusion, Emily Dickinson loved nature and found deep inspiration in the nature, birds, animals, plants and changing season of New England countryside. She also used to explore the dark and hidden part of the mind, dramatizing death and grave.
Signature of Emily Dickinson
“My friends are my estate.” — Emily Dickinson
It’s difficult to find true friends, but when you do, they become your world. We must take care of our friends, and show them how much they mean to us. It’s the beauty in life.
