Dickinson’s passion for people impacted her poetry (Myers). The book “A Vision of Poets” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning influenced Dickinson’s formative role (Habegger). While writing her poems, Dickinson got really lonely. hen she sent her poems to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, however, just the communication with him saved her life. When Emily Dickinson’s dad died it made her more open about herself (Habegger). Because Dickinson’s poems were about her thoughts and feelings, many of them expressed passion, love, despair and dread (Eberwein). Dickinson also got inspired during the Civil War to write hundreds of her poems based on those issues. Towards the end she started writing about what caused those issues (Habegger). Additionally, Emily Dickinson only felt comfortable sending her personal poetry to people close to …show more content…
The only way she got her poems published was by Samuel Bowels, who published seven of Dickinson’s poems without her permission (Habegger). Dickinson wrote a variety of her poems in the years of the early 1860’s (Eberwein). In her last 15 years, she averaged writing 30 poems per year (Habegger). Throughout Dickinson’s adulthood she was never married but had significant relationships with men and her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert (Myers). Even though Emily Dickinson never published her own poetry, they still managed to be shown to the