Emily Dickinson's Heartbreak And Loss Of A Woman

Emily Dickinson suffered heartbreak and loss of a mother figure when her mom got sick. This caused a major lack of exposure to society and making her more secluded to her house. Since her mom became so ill she needed constant care and to help around the house. Between both Emily and her sister, she was the one who stayed home all the time to minister to her aid. “I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred (Emily Dickinson to Mr. Higginson).” Emily was very independent since she was a little girl, though when her mom became ill this became more prominent. This problem led Emily to push away any friends she had outside of the house. “I should love to pass an hour with you, and the little girls, could I leave home, or mother. I …show more content…
“As her mother continued to decline, Dickinson's domestic responsibilities weighed more heavily upon her and she confined herself within the Homestead (Poemhunter).” Pushing away her friends, Emily, was being put in the spot of a mother rather than a daughter. This is allowed her to exceed in the unique field of writing, during the day when her mother was resting and all the housework was done Emily found time to fulfill her passion. She would sit at her desk and write continuously, it is supposed during the late 1850s Emily wrote a great deal of her poems and letters. Many of her writings during this time expressed how she felt confined to her house and almost as if she was surrounded by death and loss. “Ah! dainty- dainty Death! Ah! democratic Death! Grasping the proudest zinnia from my purple garden, - then deep to his bosom calling the serf’s child! (Emily Dickinson to the Hollands, Page 604)” Emily’s mother wasn’t the only thing that truly affected her writing but also the location of where she