Amherst

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 1 of 36 - About 359 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Emily Dickinson was born on December/10th/1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Dickinson’s family originated from New England. Dickinson’s grandfather Samuel Dickinson, was widely known as the inventor of Amherst College. Dickinson’s father worked and served in Amherst as a state legislator. Dickinson has 2 siblings named William Austin, Lavinia Norcross. Dickinson was a great student at Amherst Academy for 7 years and then went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for 1 year. The real reason on why Dickinson left the school is still unknown some say that her emotions/family told her to pull out. Dickinson started writing as a teenager. Dickinson;s influences were Leonard Humphrey the principle of Amherst Academy and a close friend named Benjamin Franklin…

    • 302 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Some may say that the quiet and secluded are the most threatening. In Emily Dickinson’s case this statement is true. Not in the manner as harmful or dangerous, but in the way that she was better than most poets. However, no one knew it until after her death because she never published any of her work. Today she is considered one of the most prominent figures of American Literature. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830 to the leading family in Amherst. Edward…

    • 998 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Emily Dickinson Sydney York 2ab 2/12/16 Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts to Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross-Dickinson. She had two siblings, her brother William Austin Dickinson was born in 1829 and her sister Lavinia Norcross-Dickinson was born in 1833. She went to Amherst Academy for seven years and later went to…

    • 582 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Who Is Emily Dickinson

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages

    One of Emily Dickinson’s most well-known poems begins, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” In her lifetime, Dickinson may indeed have been “Nobody.” Her accomplishments were barely known by her family, never mind the rest of the country, until after her death. Today, however, we know how truly impressive and worthy of fame Dickinson is. From her birth on December 10th, 1830, to her death on May 15th, 1886, Dickinson grew like one of the flowers from her beloved garden and developed into one of America’s…

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Success is a counted sweetness” she makes the reader feel motivated, but at the same time disappointed because of the sacrifices that have to be done for success. “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” is a poem that has a sad tone at the beginning but eventually changes to a different tone. Another poem by Emily Dickenson “I never lost as much as twice” is a poem that stays with a neutral tone and can make the reader feel something depending on his or her experiences. Poetry gives a…

    • 868 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Emily Dickinson Biography

    • 788 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest poets. She was born in the family Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. The Homestead might have been the first built brick house in Amherst. It was built for Emily’s grandparents, Samuel Fowler Dickinson and Lucretia Gunn Dickinson. Her family consisted of her parents, Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson, and her siblings William Austin Dickinson and Lavinia Dickinson. “For school, she attended Amherst Academy for seven…

    • 788 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Emily Dickinson personified death in the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by representing death as a person. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me;” In this poem the speaker is communicating as someone who as seen both sides of life,the real life and after life. Because she could not stop for Death—“), death stops for her, hence it does what she could not do for death.. This deep thought that Death shows when it takes time for her enables her to think and gets…

    • 1143 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Writer and science teacher at Smith College, Naila Moreira, examines sustainably grown food at college campuses, specifically Amherst College’s farm in Amherst, MA. About four years ago Amherst began a new initiative of operating a college farm with the help of student workers called Book and Plow Farm. The food that was grown in this farm would then be partially supplied to the college’s dining halls, providing students with fresh, locally grown food. This topic of locally grown and sustainable…

    • 692 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Life As Emily Dickinson

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Life as Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson lived in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the middle child in the Dickinson family and she got inspired to write poetry by the principal of Amherst Academy Leonard Humphrey. In “I think I was enchanted” poem of Emily Dickinson time was not being settled, but what it was made clear is the magic in the setting. There were bees that turned into butterflies, butterflies into swans and nature was murmuring. In “The Brain is wider than the sky”, there is a formal…

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    -Born in Amherst, Massachusetts -Poet -Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson was a poet born in 1830 who was considered one of America’s greatest poets and a Transcendentalist because she often discussed the acceptance of death. “Emily Dickinson was a poet who was born in 1830. She wrote about 1800 poems, most of them being published after her death. Her quiet life was infused with a creative energy that produced almost 1800 poems and a profusion of vibrant letters.”(Emily Dickinson museum) “She…

    • 643 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Previous
    Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 36