Comparing Emily Dickinson's Life And Work

Even though Emily Dickinson was severely depressed, she managed to get through it, and keep going. She was an amazing poet and an inspiration to other poets as well. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She spent most of her life in the family home that was built in 1813 by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. The Dickinson home was a center of Amherst society and the site of annual Amherst College commencement receptions due to the founding of Amherst Academy and Amherst College by her grandfather. Her home was filled with politically active males as she grew up, therefore, she wanted to be politically active, but could not because of her gender. By 1852, Dickinson had graduated from Amherst Academy and completed a year of study at Mount Holyoke. From the time she started school, she thought of herself as an original thinker who dazzled her teachers. As she was studying at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, she was the only student unwilling to publicly confess faith in Christ. She was so judged for doing that, that she decided to hide from the world and become a sort of recluse. …show more content…
Emily’s experience at Mount Holyoke may have been what brought independence to her that made her want to write. The 1,150 letters in The Letters of Emily Dickinson only represent a fraction of what Dickinson actually wrote. In 1858 she wrote 52 poems but in 1862 she wrote 366 poems. One of Emily Dickinson’s most well known poems on mental health is called, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain. What may have sparked the creation of this poem is the severe anxiety disorder Dickinson suffered from and the depression she