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Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, and she was the daughter of a lawyer. When she was a child she very enthralled with cooking, sewing, playing with friends, and studying for school. She was very outgoing as a child but as she began to get older she became more and more isolated. She traveled to many different places including Boston and Philadelphia. But as she grew older she would just stay in her hometown and she would rarely leave her house. The last ten years of her…

summarize Dickinson’s life (79-83) Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her family was rather prominent in the economic, political, and intellectual spheres. Her father served as a lawyer, a state representative, and a state senator, all at different parts of his life. Dickinson never married and remained close with her parents through her life. Nevertheless, she attended Amherst Academy as well as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She didn’t complete the…

Famous American poet Emily Dickinson was perhaps best known for living a life of introversion. Dickinson was born into a wealthy and intellectually prominent family in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived out the majority of her life in her family home with her sister, Lavinia. As is true of many writers, Dickinson is thought to have drawn from personal experience when composing her poems. Emily Dickinson’s life left a distinguishable impression on her writing, which is easy to acknowledge in one…

During a speech addressing attendees at the Jones Library in Amherst in 2004, Daria D’Arienzo spoke of the unveiling of Emily Dickinson’s daguerreotype which had been thought to be lost. “Like Dickinson’s own story, full of twists and turns and mystery. There are more questions than answers,” D’Arienzo states as she finishes speaking. The life of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was diligently dictated through verses of poetry by the woman herself in hundreds of notebooks throughout her life. The…

Emily Dickinson was a female author of poetry from Amherst, Massachusetts in born in 1830 and died in 1886. Only a handful of her hundreds of poems were published before her death in 1886. Furthermore, Dickinson has since joined Walt Whitman in the literary canon as one of the two most significant American poets of the nineteenth century. (Bluemle, S. R., 2008) I will discuss about her illness she had in her life, the language of her poetry that reflects on her life of how her works was…

Emily Dickinson was an enigmatic figure. Her personal life has always been veiled in mystery which intrigued biographers and researchers of her poetry. Although she left over two thousand poems and approximately one thousand letters in which she enclosed a lot of details about herself, these remarks were more directed at highlighting the mysterious aura surrounding her life as well as creating an unambiguous image of herself. Researchers debate among themselves about the source of Dickinson’s…

Emily Dickinson’s most productive years as a poet were that of the years of the Civil War. Her interest in the war was reflected in her personal relationships with others, letters, and poems. Of Emily Dickinson’s friends, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Bowels and, Frazar Stearns were more famously known for their participation in the war. Higginson and Dickinson corresponded often during the war, which may have given her more of an insight as to what was happening on the front lines. While…

Emily Dickinson lived a life of extreme isolation and privacy; she left only her poems behind as a clue to understanding her incredibly advanced mind. While Dickinson was afraid to share her beliefs in public, her writings become an outlet for expression and enabled Emily to piece together her complex thoughts. Feminism was not a popular ideology during Dickinson’s nineteenth century life, with the first “wave” of feminism being in the early 1900s. However, an analysis of her poetry points to…

why I chose this topic University of Massachusetts Amherst has been joined “The Real Food” challenge for three years. I’ve seen the posters and boards towards “The Real food” challenge in the dinning hall but without knowing what “the real food” stands for. After doing the research. I getting to know that “Real Food” means the food is grown locally, heathy and sustainable. This year UMass dining has been ranked number 1 in the nation by Princeton Review. According to the Princeton Review…

Diversity Intern at Amherst College. When I applied to the Amherst Diversity Open Houses (DIVOH) senior year of high school, I was just starting to think about the college process. Coming from a small town over ninety percent Caucasian, I was drawn to Amherst’s emphasis on diversity and wanted to visit my first liberal arts college. Once I arrived, I was astonished by the experiences of my fellow DIVOH students and became overwhelmed at how heterogeneous yet close-knit the Amherst community…