Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson


     The year 1830 is a crucial date in English history.  You see, this is

the year that one of the most influential poets in the world was born.  Emily

Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, an old fashioned Puritan town.

Rarely did she go outside to meet strangers or walk in the garden.  Emily felt

uncomfortable outside of her house and even if she did travel, it wasn't for

more than one hour.  She was greatly impacted by her father, who was a lawyer,

politician, and treasurer of Amherst College.  The turning point in Emily's life

occurred while she was on a business trip in Washington D.C. with her father.

There, Emily met a Presbyterian Minister.  Soon enough, she deeply fell in love

with this man , whose name was Charlies Wadsworth.  Even though the two were

acquaintances, Emily felt a bond between herself and the much older and already

married minister.  However, although Charles was kind to her, he did not return

her love.  Eight years later, in1862, Charlies left for San Francisco,

Calafornia with his family.  It was about this time that Emily totally secluded

herself from the world and started what would be world  famous poems throughout

the future .  She adopted her ideas on poetry from her personal life, her

fondness of nature, death, and her dislike of organized religion.  War is

occasionally pulled into Emily's poems also.


     Emily seemed truly concerned over happenings in her personal life.  So

she mainly focused her writings on the loss of her lover.  In "I Never Saw A

Moor," she describes things that she had never seen or experienced before but

she knows what they are about.  Here, Emily is trying to express herself on why

she thinks Charles left her.  She is desperately searching for answers.  Emily

attempted to teach others a lesson when she wrote "Tell All The Turth, But Tell

It Slant."  In this work, she wishes that Charles had given her a reason why he

left so abruptly.  She is stressing that people should tell all the truth, but

lay it down easily so it does not cause strife.  "Heart! We Will Forget Him!"

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