The Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson, best known as The Belle of Amherst, has become one of America’s most renowned poets to date. Having redefined the meaning of poetry, her poems are now studied by students all around the world and is renowned as some of the greatest American poetry to come out of her time. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10 1830, to her parents Edward and Emily Dickinson. Emily and her two other siblings, William and Lavinia, received a top notch education within Amherst first going to primary school and then being sent to Amherst Academy with her sister, while William was sent to Seminary school. By accounts written by Dickinson herself, she enjoyed her education having
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Like many girls her age, Dickinson went on to continue her education at a seminary. However, Dickinson only stayed at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for a year, giving rise to speculation and rumors. Many argue that is was at this time that Emily’s reclusiveness began to show, while others believe that it was Emily’s fathers wish that she not return to school. Whatever the reason Emily did not return to Holyoke, and when the time came for her younger sister to go to seminary her family sent her to Ipswich and not Mount …show more content…
In Emily’s time the older sister was supposed to act as a moral guide to the younger brother, and she did so, but with her own take on how she would guide her brother. Early letters to her brother show that Dickinson decided that in order for her brother to be brought up as a proper young man there were two requirements of which that he should meet. The first, Dickinson decided with an understanding of the times, that when her brother should leave his education he must do so with a firm loyalty to his household and family. The second, a notion that Dickinson herself came up with, was that his success entirely depended on him being “intellectually honest” (Poetry Foundation). Eventually, as her brother grew up their relationship started to shift away until eventually he married and no longer needed the guidance of his older sister. Starting in the late 1850’s, after her brother married, Emily had begun to take care of her ailing mother, which many conclude helped contribute to Dickinson’s famous reclusiveness. It was then that her most intense period of reclusion started. Keeping to herself in The Homestead in Amherst, and tending to her ill mother, who eventually died in 1882, Emily begins writing some of her most notable works of
Like many girls her age, Dickinson went on to continue her education at a seminary. However, Dickinson only stayed at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for a year, giving rise to speculation and rumors. Many argue that is was at this time that Emily’s reclusiveness began to show, while others believe that it was Emily’s fathers wish that she not return to school. Whatever the reason Emily did not return to Holyoke, and when the time came for her younger sister to go to seminary her family sent her to Ipswich and not Mount …show more content…
In Emily’s time the older sister was supposed to act as a moral guide to the younger brother, and she did so, but with her own take on how she would guide her brother. Early letters to her brother show that Dickinson decided that in order for her brother to be brought up as a proper young man there were two requirements of which that he should meet. The first, Dickinson decided with an understanding of the times, that when her brother should leave his education he must do so with a firm loyalty to his household and family. The second, a notion that Dickinson herself came up with, was that his success entirely depended on him being “intellectually honest” (Poetry Foundation). Eventually, as her brother grew up their relationship started to shift away until eventually he married and no longer needed the guidance of his older sister. Starting in the late 1850’s, after her brother married, Emily had begun to take care of her ailing mother, which many conclude helped contribute to Dickinson’s famous reclusiveness. It was then that her most intense period of reclusion started. Keeping to herself in The Homestead in Amherst, and tending to her ill mother, who eventually died in 1882, Emily begins writing some of her most notable works of