Emily Dickinson Individualism Essay

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Writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, & Emily Dickinson are all individualistic in their own way in their writing. But the one writer that you can real not only see but feel their individualism is Emily Dickinson. In her writing you could tell they way she was feeling when she wrote those poems. I could have done my essay on any of the other 4 writer but i didn’t because she is in my opinion the most individualistic of those writers because she is the only one I feel you could feel the way she did when she wrote her poems. Some may think she was a nut case for not leaving her house at all or even because she loved one man that didn't even love her back, but honestly because of

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