who was Emily Dickinson?

Question

like what can of life she had?,what about her poems?, how was she? , i'd say what do u know about her and her peotry?

Answer 1

Try these sites:
http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century. In fact, it is commonly conjectured that Contemporary North American Poetry extends outward along two principal currents, that which flows from Whitman and that which flows from Dickinson. Curiously enough, the two poets are almost opposite in personality, prosody, poetic manifesto and style.

Dickinson lived an introverted and hermetic life, which has inspired numerous biographers and voluminous speculation of which little is definitively known. Although she wrote, at latest count, 1789 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime, all anonymously and probably without her knowledge.

Answer 2

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential American poets of the 19th century.

Dickinson lived an introverted and hermetic life. Although she wrote, at latest count, 1789 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime, all anonymously and probably without her knowledge.

Dickinson's poetry is often recognizable at a glance, and is unlike the work of any other poet. Her facility with ballad and hymn meter, her extensive use of dashes and unconventional capitalization in her manuscripts, and her idiosyncratic vocabulary and imagery combine to create a unique lyric style.

Most of her work is reflective of life's small moments and some larger issues in society. Over half of her poems were written during the years of the American Civil War. Many suggest that the Civil War gave some of the tense feeling in her poetry.

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a prominent family well known for their political and educational influence.
She lived most of her life in the family's house in Amherst, which has been preserved as the Emily Dickinson Museum. In 1840, Emily was educated at the nearby Amherst Academy. She studied English and classical literature, learning Latin and reading the Aeneid over several years, and was taught in other subjects including religion, history, mathematics, geology, and biology. In 1847, at 17, Dickinson began attending Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. Her brother Austin was sent to bring her home after less than a year at the Seminary, and she did not return to the school. Some speculate that she was homesick, however there is also speculation that she refused to sign an oath stating she would devote her life to Jesus Christ, and realized she no longer wanted to attend there, went home and never returned.
For decades, popular wisdom portrayed Dickinson as an agoraphobic recluse.

Dickinson's possible romantic and sexual adventures are matters of great controversy among her biographers and critics. There is little evidence on which to base a conclusion about the objects of her affection, though Dickinson's understanding of passion is made clear by some of her poems and letters. Attention has focused especially on a group of letters addressed only to "Master", known as the Master letters, in which Dickinson appears to be writing to a male lover; neither the addressee of these letters, nor whether they were sent, has been established.
While many of Dickinson's letters and poems are highly charged, passionate, and erotic, few biographers or critics believe that Dickinson physically consummated a relationship with anyone.

Dickinson died on May 15, 1886. The cause of death was listed as Bright's disease (nephritis).
Upon her death, her family found 40 handbound volumes of more than 800 of her poems.

To learn more about Emily Dickinson, read this detailed biography:
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/dickinson_em.html

Answer 3

an attractive homage to Emily that i think she could have enjoyed, no longer in simple terms for its sensibilities and content, yet because of the fact it meant that others have been interpreting her poems and have been moved via them (only some certainly have been revealed in the time of her lifetime). right here words are leaves that fill leaves of yet another variety greater comparable to the now yellowed paper under. I enjoyed your use of the em sprint, very like Dickinson, regardless of the shown fact that perchance much less prevalent and volcanic. and ultimately, the last "continuously/ Or a minimum of long sufficient, for us,/ To overlook them . . . by no skill -- " factors to the riddle of finitude and understanding that intrigued Dickinson herself, one which is raised anew via a poet -- you -- who has delivered her to existence this morning. a astounding and considerate tribute.

Answer 4

She's the sister of Charles Dickinson. Her poems have the tone of meloncholy. It reflects her past.

Answer 5

Sad, lonely life. Sad poems mostly about death. I think she was loked in her room for a while...a long while.