Emily Dickinson

A detailed Summary of Emily Dickinson

When life restricts our flow of happiness with tragedy and heartbreak, another

door is opened up. It is the door of creativity, of art, of flowing insights. And although for

the individual this experience is void of smiles and full of tears, it provides the rest of us

with a small glimpse into the inner self. Emily Dickinson's poetry is the symbolic keyhole

to the depths of her tormented soul. Her despair seeped through in the form of poetry.

Emily Dickinson's poetry was an expression of the isolation and seclusion she felt as a

result of her relationships and deaths of family members and friends.

"Home was always dear to me", Emily would write in letters to her brother

(Steffens 13) . Emily was extremely close to her family, especially to her father. She had

a brother, Austin, and a sister Lavinia. Emily Norcross Dickinson, Emily's mother, did

not appear as though she was a strong motherly figure to Emily. The family lived in

Amherst, a small community of about 40 houses and 4 dirt roads (Olsen 20).

The close friends that Emily had were very dear to her. Susan Gilbert, her closest

female friend, attended school with Emily. "In 1856 Susan married Emily's brother,

everything from sheer frustration to in depth loneliness in a single poem. It is funny that

written in 1861-brides did not customarily wear white until the late 1870's" (Steffens 63).

traumatized by her father's death and in her sorrow she secluded herself even more"

letters" (Gelpi 21). The Second lover of Emily would have been Judge Otis Phillips Lord,

about the afterlife"(Olsen 33). Emily referred to Ben as her "tutor" and her "preceptor".

Approximate Word count = 1149
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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