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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the second daughter of a prominent lawyer and one-term United States congressional representative, Edward Dickinson and his wife, Emily Norcross Dickinson. Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800’s, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up their father’s religious beliefs and values without argument. Later in life, Emily would come to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges she met with would later contribute to the strength of her poetry. From 1840 to 1847, Emily attended the Amherst Academy. Afterwards, she left for the South Hadley Female Seminary where she started to blossom into a delicate young woman. She had a demure manner that was almost fun with her close friends, but Emily could be shy, silent, or even depreciating in the presence of strangers. Although she was successful at college, Emily returned after only one year at the seminary in 1848 to Amherst where she began her life of seclusion. Refusing to see almost everyone that came to visit, Emily seldom left her father’s house. In her entire life, she took one trip to Philadelphia, one to Washington, and a few trips to Boston. During this time, her early twenties, Emily began to write poetry seriously. Fortunately, during those rare journeys Emily met two very influential men that would be sources of inspiration and guidance: Charles Wadsworth and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The Reverend Charles Wadsworth, age 41, had a powerful effect on Emily’s life and her poetry. She met Charles on her trip to Philadelphia. Wadsworth, like Dickinson, was a solitary, romantic person that Emily could confide in when writing her poetry. Many of Dickinson’s critics believe that Wadsworth was the focal point of Emily’s love poems. When Emily had a sizabl... Please login to view comments from other users.
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