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The Life of Emily Dickinson


Although she lived a seemingly secluded life, Emily Dickinson's many
encounters with death influenced many of her poems and letters. Perhaps one of
the most ground breaking and inventive poets in American history, Dickinson has
become as well known for her bizarre and eccentric life as for her incredible
poems and letters. Numbering over 1,700, her poems highlight the many moments
in a 19th century New Englander woman's life, including the deaths of some of
her most beloved friends and family, most of which occurred in a short period of
time (Benfey 6-25).
Several biographers of Dickinson point out her methods of exploring
several topics in "circumference," as she says in her own words. Death is
perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other
than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to
see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of
Amherst,......

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