Between the times she wrote the two poems, many aspects of Dickinson’s life had gone wrong; many views she held when she was younger changed drastically, and they greatly influenced what she wrote about. Based off of what is known about her and how she was raised, her life was an especially good one. Her family was wealthy, influential, and seemed to be more supportive of how she decided to live than most families in those days would have been, and, as stated in the previous paragraph, her first nephew had been born just before she wrote “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” (Crumbley). Then the Civil War began and that is when her views began to shift (A Timeline of Dickinson's Life). The war was devastating for everyone in the United States,
