Introduction
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is an American poet who was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, America (Goddu & Krystyna 7). Her prominent family has profound roots in England as well as strong ties within the community. Her father, who doubles up as the Amherst college founder, and a state legislator, married Emily Norcross in 1828 (Emilly Dickinson 11). The parents are afterward blessed with three children. As a superb scholar, Emily goes to Amherst Academy for seven years and later to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for one year. In 1848, Dickinson left the learning institution under unclear circumstances, never to join a particular denomination, which goes contrary to the ethical standards of the moment (Goddu & Krystyna 18). After returning home, Dickinson lived much of her life in reclusive to the extent she barely leaves her bedroom. She's also reluctant to greet visitors.
Educational Journey and Departure from Conventional Norms
Dickinson begins writing as a youth after she is hugely influenced by Leonard Humphrey, who is the Amherst's Academy principal and Benjamin Franklin, who is a family friend. Later 1855, after she ventures far and wide Philadelphia, she interacts with a Minister by the name of Charles Wadsworth, who turns out to be a significant correspondent (Goddu & Krystyna 45). Similarly, she befriends Susan Gilbert, who becomes her closest friend as well as an adviser. In 1856, Dickinson's brother, William, married Gilbert, who later settle in Evergreens, which neighbors the homestead, a large home William's family lives in Amherst. Both Emily and her sister Lavinia look after their ailing mother, who later passes away in 1882; Neither Lavinia nor Emily marries. They both live jointly at the homestead to their deaths.
Productive Years: Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Creation of Fascicles
From the late 1850s to the mid-1860s, Dickinson becomes a productive poet (Goddu & Krystyna 59). He would create a bundle of verses known as fascicles without the knowledge of any of his family members. During her free time, Emily also studies botany and produces extensive herbarium. Although she is a creative and plentiful poet, only 10 out of nearly 1,800 poems are published in her lifetime (Emilly Dickson 68). According to Biography.com, to conform to the conventional poetic rules, her unique poems are edited before publication.
Significant Relationships
Many of these poems deal with death and immortality, which are recurrent topics in letters sent to her friends. Her poems are seen to lack titles as well as having short lines, irregular punctuation and capitalization; an imperfect rhyme is also a common characteristic that is witnessed in her poems. Unfortunately, Dickon's ability to use form and syntax is lost during alteration According to Goddu, Emily's early writing mostly is in the form of letters, which she writes to her brother Austin or her female friends like Susan Gilbert, and Abiah Root 87. Dickinson gives and requests more from her correspondents than she seems to receive to the extent that she considers her correspondent's laxity in giving responses as proof of neglect and or betray.
Through some of her works, Dickinson's life experiences some unpleasant and obscure crisis, romance being one of them. According to Goddu, an unidentified individual by the name of Master occurs in many of her art pieces, which ignites a lot of debates and speculations that the individual is George Henry, the recipient of Valentine from Dickinson in 1850 (Goddu & Krystyna 102). Some Individuals contend that Master is a woman possibly Susan Gilberts or Kate Scott Anthon. The unclear individual contributes to some of Dickinson's piercing and absolute distress. For Instance, the uncomfortable events provoke her to share about her lonely feelings as torture—since September, I could tell to nobody. Her self-awareness of recurring tragedies empowers her poetic ambitions since she can relate to events and make proactive judgments. For instance, Dickinson does a little writing about the American civil war that influences her character more strongly.
Legacy and Passing: Emily Dickinson's Enduring Influence
On May 15, 1886, Dickson died of kidney disease at the age of 55 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is laid to rest in the west cemetery (Goddu & Krystyna 189). It is only after Dickinson's death that her younger sister Lavinia discovers her hoard of poems, which later becomes public. Emily used to gather the poems by folding and sewing several sheets of stationery paper and copying the final version of the poems. The notable alteration that editors change is replacing her dash with an en-dash, which is a closer typographical estimation to her intention.The hundreds of poems are later published in 1890, although the whole combination commonly referred to as The poems of Emily Dickson is published in 1955 (Emilly Dickson 194). Her strength as demonstrated by her literary voice, eccentric and reclusive life, which gives Dickinson a strong and uniquely American character who is undisputable and continues to be debated to date.
Conclusion
Emily Dickinson's life and art are still arguable. There are equal criticisms as praise based on her nature and nurture, as noted by various authors who analyze her work. For instance, some scholars question the relationship between Susan and Dickinson, therefore, making her a center of gravity when it comes to provoking the readers' minds and varied understanding of poets and authors. Consequently, her poetry and muddled life attract remarkable attention in the form of autobiographies. It is important to understand that Dickinson's poems are not necessarily products of egotistical personality but of creativity, contemplation, and careful skills.
