Emily Dickinson - Her Life and Poetry Essay -- Emily Dickinson Poetry

Emily Dickinson - Her Life and Poetry Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born December 10, 1830, into an influential family in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father helped found Amherst College, where Emily later attended between 1840 and 1846. She never conjoin and died in the house where she was born on May 15, 1886. Emily Dickinsons cloistered life was arguably a result of her proposed bi-polar disorder. This life and disorder unduly influenced the themes of her poetry. She chose not to associate herself with society and volumes of her poems, published posthumously, examine this idea as well as the themes of nature and death. The clearest examples of these themes are presented in the following abstract of just of few of her poems that concurrently exemplify her idiosyncratic style. Dickinsons feelings near society can be seen in her poem, Im nil Who are you? This poem defends her reclusive life and criticizes the lives of members of society, the frogs, who are busy travel their names, croaking, to be recognized. Again in her poem, The S...