The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson And The Rules Of Poetry

Emily Dickinson, born December 10, 1830 to Edward and Emily (Norcross) Dickinson, was a famous poet of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. [She was a very intelligent, and very rebellious.] Dickinson defied the rules of poetry during her time, and made a stand for poetry itself. She lived a life by herself, with family, very few friends, and poetry. Emily Dickinson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, was not a famous poet during her lifetime. Born in 1830, Dickinson was raised in a “Puritan New England town that encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and a conservative approach to Christianity”(poets.org). Though Dickinson was raised in a town that encouraged Christianity, she was “dissatisfied with organized religion and sought God through new schools of spiritual thought”(biography.com). She attended two colleges, Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Her father and brother both graduated from Amherst Academy, she graduated at the age of 15 with her master’s degree (poetryfoundation.org). At the age of 16 she entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, where she was a chemist by training (poetryfoundation.org). She also enjoyed her Language Arts classes, which is where she found she was fond of writing …show more content…
“If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head”, “Mama Never Forgets Her Birds”, and “Have Any Like Myself” explain many things in her life through the words of the poems. “If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head” explains how she didn’t believe what everyone else wanted her too. In her time period, women had to follow the rules of the man of the house. Women were supposed to be at home; cooking, cleaning and watching the children. Emily didn’t believe in that, and she wanted to do what she wanted to do. This part of “If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head” explains how if she were to ever start to lean toward their views that she would see how far she was from herself and she would come back to her original