The Life Of Emily Dickinson
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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 in ....
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.... part of her life she rarely left her
large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door
rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her a reputation for
eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in
death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New
England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some crit ....
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