Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was a poet born in Amherst, Massachusettes on December 10,1830. There was a strong Dickinson presence in New England with her grandfather being the founder of Amherst college and her father a successful attorney, legislature, treasurer, and also a community leader (Bloom 11). She went to college for 7 years, but never finished and returned home without ever finishing her studies (Bloom 11). After the age of 30, Emily secluded herself, selmdom seeing anyone but herimmediate family (Loving). After 1974, she never left her house, and only wore white (Matanic). She died on May 16, 1886. Timothy Leary was a philosopher, psychylogist, author and scientist born on October 22,1920 ("The Timothy Leary Biography." www.leary.com). He worked at Harvard in the center of research in personality, and he was introduced to psychedelics in the 1960's (Time). Leary saw potential for this new therapeutic chemical brain-changer, and set out to explore its effects on the h
With Leary to guide her, Dickinson could have gotten her poetry published during her lifetime. Out of the 1,775 poems she wrote, only 7 were published (Safier 328). Some were anonymous, and some against her wishes (Safier 328). If Timothy made Emily more outgoing, she would not have gone into seclusion, and wasted half of her life sitting in her house. There were also many speculations about why Emily went into seclusion, one of which being a deep depression (Matanic). If Leary would have helped enliven her human spirit, she wouldn't have had a reason to hide away from the world. She might have even been married, and had a few children. Emily spent the last part of her life mourning the deaths of members of her family and friends. Leary's had a better outlook on death. When told he had prostate cancer, he immediatly did something no one else does in `this situation. He celebrated the news (Gilmore). Instead of mourning the death of her loved ones, while considerin
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