Born in 1830, Emily …show more content…
In fact, she was a quiet and very reclusive woman who hardly left her home town. Emily was born in a quiet New-England town Amherst, Massachusetts, has been called the “Belle of Amherst.” At the home she was raised in, Emily was frequently in her garden. Dickinson was secretly writing and only a few people she corresponded with knew and saw her poems. Only seven poems were published during her lifetime. However, they happened to be poems she written to other people who had them published. Dickinson sheltered life may have result in family members and friends death. Clearly, she valued the few friends she had, ever though she shut herself out of the world. A lot of recent, sexual feelings were questions of Emily writings. Refusing to dedicate her life to Jesus Christ she dropped out of school. Although she clearly believed in God and heaven, but the views of her peers where different. In a poem of hers, she says: “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-I keep it, staying at Home- With a Bobolink for Chorister-And an Orchard, for a Dome-Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice-I just wear my wings-And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church, Our little Sexton-Sings. God preaches, a noted Clergyman-And the sermon is never long, So instead of going to