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Emily Dickinson 's Emily And The English Specking World Essay

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Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is a very well-known poet. Emily wrote many poems. She has written 1700-2000 poems (4) According to Nicolas Tredell, there was “only eleven poems published during her lifetime.” (4) She did not know about most of them being published. Dickinson’s sister found the poems and turned them in to be published. Emily did not want her poems to be seen. Dickinson is one of the great poets. Her poems were produced by America and the English-specking world (1). Emily had a life that was interesting. Her poems are interesting also. Emily’s biography, element of her poems, overview of her poems, themes and symbols of the poems, and three poems are just a few things that interest me about Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was born as Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. She was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily’s parents were Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She has two siblings. An older brother name William and younger sister name Lavinia. Emily had a closer relationship with her father than her mother. Her mother “barley understood much of her daughter’s poetry” (1). She became closer to her mother after her father passed. Dickinson and her brother were similar but “both were intellectual and ambitious.” (1) Lavinia, Dickinson’s sister, grow up like their mother. Lavinia turned in Emily’s 1700-2000 poems and the first edition was published four years after Emily’s death. Emily had some impossible love for two men. One was her

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