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 inc ....
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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 criti ....
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