Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson was one of three children to Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer, state representative and state senator, and his wife Emily Norcross Dickinson. Coming from a well-educated family who was prominent in the community, Dickinson was not attractive on the marriage market; and spent all of her time writing in her room and taking care of her sick mother. Writing was her vocation and her avocation. Dickinson is known as one of the greatest American poets and is best known for her writings involving death and mortality. Although her talents were not recognized during her lifetime, Dickinson wrote over 1,800 poems that were found and published by her sister after Dickinson’s death in 1886.
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This poem is also metaphor for her life meaning there is always hope in the darkest places. This poem creates strong imagery painting a picture of a brutal storm to make the reader think of one’s own struggles in life. The end of Dickinson’s life she began to suffer due to medical problems. Her father died in 1874 and her mother suffered a stroke the following year and died eight years later. Many family and friends began to pass which drew Dickinson farther and farther from the outside world. Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 from a kidney disorder called Bright’s disease. After her death, her sister, Lavinia found her countless poems and was determined to publish them. Lavinia gave the poems to Mabel Loomis Todd, wife of an astronomy professor at Amherst College, and began to edit the manuscripts with the help of T.W. Higginson. From 1890-1896 three volumes of her poetry was published selling over ten thousand copies. By 1900 her poetry had become out of taste. In 1914 Martha Dickinson Bianchi published eight volumes of Dickinson’s work between 1914 and 1937 that helped achieved the audience it has
This poem is also metaphor for her life meaning there is always hope in the darkest places. This poem creates strong imagery painting a picture of a brutal storm to make the reader think of one’s own struggles in life. The end of Dickinson’s life she began to suffer due to medical problems. Her father died in 1874 and her mother suffered a stroke the following year and died eight years later. Many family and friends began to pass which drew Dickinson farther and farther from the outside world. Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 from a kidney disorder called Bright’s disease. After her death, her sister, Lavinia found her countless poems and was determined to publish them. Lavinia gave the poems to Mabel Loomis Todd, wife of an astronomy professor at Amherst College, and began to edit the manuscripts with the help of T.W. Higginson. From 1890-1896 three volumes of her poetry was published selling over ten thousand copies. By 1900 her poetry had become out of taste. In 1914 Martha Dickinson Bianchi published eight volumes of Dickinson’s work between 1914 and 1937 that helped achieved the audience it has