How Did Emily Dickinson Influence Her Poetry

Sometimes certain people like to be isolated and left alone throughout their life. They don’t want to constantly be around new people, and they only want a select few of their trusted friends and family to be around. Maybe because of anxiety, depression, another mental disorder, or they simply do not want the interaction. There is nothing wrong with it, and sometimes good things come out of the isolation and alone time. My author, Emily Dickinson, was alone most of her life, and she kept to herself. Of course she spent some time with family and friends but majority of her life she kept quiet, and she stayed home most of the time. She went to school, and continued her education at Amherst Academy with her goal to get the highest level of education a woman could earn. Schooling there had a major influence on her poetry, especially the science program. However, going to

These events most likely could have been the inspiration for some of her poetry. She had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, and that is part of the reason why she was alone all the time, and why she turned to writing. She wrote about her feelings and let everything out in her poetry. She wrote about a few of the friendships she shared with people and how she cherished those few. As she got older, her poetry bega to increasingly become better and by the 1850’s, she had been writing the best poetry she had ever written. By the end of the 1850’s, her poetry began to become distinct from each other, almost as if each one had a different voice for the different story that it was communicating. And it gave the poetry character and uniqueness and originality. After Dickinson’s passing, a family member found all of Dickinson’s poetry, and after reading it they wanted to get her work published. They published many, many poems and pieces of work from Dickinson. Only then did she become famous from her