Emily Dickinson
- Born on December 10, 1830 in Massachusetts
- Died on May 15, 1886 in Massachusetts
- A recluse that rarely socialize with others
- One of the few female poets that are significant
- Lack of title in her poems
- Introduce the idea of slant rhyme
Emily Dickinson wan an excellent student that studied at Amherst Academy. Despite of her exceptional performances, she often miss classes due to her illness. Dickinson started writing as a teenager, hence her writing influenced a lot of people including a minister called Charles Wadsworth, which later became her friend. The Dickinson family moved to Philadelphia, which they lived a comfortable and happy life.
However this happiness ends fast for them and soon tragedy arrived. Emily's mother was suffering from diseases around mid-1850s, thus Emily became a caretaker until 1882, when her mother died peacefully inside the mansion. The death of her mother greatly impact Emily than she thought, she started her seclusion because of the anxiety and depression she encountered . After a few months, she barely socialize with others, furthermore she never left her house anymore. During this period of time, she had truly face death and started to compose a variety of poems which focuses on this topic. Emily Dickinson would also pace herself through the garden in order to stay in contact with life.
Dickinson died at the age of 56 due to kidney disease. Some of her poems were later published after her death, unfortunately some were revised in order to meet the conventional thinking during the time. Lavinia Dickinson , Emily's sister, later discovered thousands of poems in her journal, which was later published in 1890.
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all.”
—Emily Dickinson