I will provide a little background information on the author to better explain the poem “328”. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Amherst Academy. Dickinson was influenced by Metaphysical poets from the seventeenth-century. She was known as a prolific writer. Dickinson was not a known writer when was alive but when she passed away he family found 1,800 poems she had written. She died May 15, 1886. In 1890, the first volume of her poems were published. Later, a traditional version was published in
