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    influenced her poetry. Emily Dickinson did not at all have a sort of a rough upbringing or childhood‚ as it was in fact‚ very pleasant for the most part. She was born on December 10th 1830 in Amherst‚ Massachusetts. The town she had grown up in‚ coincidentally‚ was noted as a center of education‚ based on the Amherst College. Her family was very well-known in the community‚ so her childhood home was often used as a meeting place for visitors. In school‚ Emily was known for being a very intelligent student

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    Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst‚ Massachusetts. Dickinson lived a reclusive life away from society in her parents’ house where she used to garden and write poems and letters. In her lifetime‚ only tenth poems were anonymously published. Dickinson was a woman that didn’t desire to be known. In one of her poems “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” she states that “Don’t tell! They’d advertise- you know! (2)”. This poem emphasizes the fact that for society‚ Dickinson is nobody and that she preferred

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    few short years in school‚ Emily never left her home town of Amherst‚ Massachusetts. In the latter 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

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    Dequan Emily Dickinson 4 March 2011 ’ ’Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst‚ Massachusetts in 1830. She lived there all of her life. Her grandfather was the founder of Amherst College‚ and her father Edward Dickinson was a lawyer who served as the treasurer of the college. He also held various political offices ’ ’. (LaBlanc‚ (2001). Emily ’s mother Emily Norcross Dickinson was a very reserve person. She didn ’t speak much but she taught Emily Dickinson all that she needed to know

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    Austin‚ and a younger sister – Lavinia Norcross. She was born into the changing community of Amherst‚ Massachusetts.

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    their backgrounds and writing styles were quite different‚ both Dickinson and Whitman challenged accepted forms of writing and are regarded today as important poets. Dickinson and Whitman had very different upbringings. Dickinson was raised in Amherst‚ Massachusetts and had two siblings. She was always put in the best schools and even received a college education at Mount Holyoke. Her family was relatively wealthy and she did not have to work in order to help them. In contrast to Dickinson’s privileged

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    Emily Dickinson Albert Camus once said‚ “A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” Camus means that a work of art is what an artist uses to confess what is deeply in his or her art. Artists use their talents to express the emotion they are feeling or expressed the emotion they’ve felt before. Artists even use their life experiences as inspiration to their art. They want to bring a certain message into their art so other people can understand the true emotion behind the

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    10‚ 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Dickinson left school as a teenager to live a reclusive life on the family homestead. Where it all begins Emily starts to fill up notebooks with poetry and wrote hundreds of letters. Her family had deep roots in New England. Her grandfather Samuel Dickinson was well known as the founder of Amherst College. Her father worked at Amherst and served as a state legislator‚ he married Emily Norcross and had three children. Dickinson well educated at Amherst College and

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    Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on 10th December‚ 1830‚ in the town of Amherst‚ Massachusetts and was raised in a strict Calvinistic home. Amherst‚ was 50 miles from Boston‚ had become well known as a center for Education‚ based around Amherst College. Emily’s family were pillars of the local community; theirs house was known as “The Homestead” or “The Mansion” was often used as a meeting place for distinguished visitors. (“Brief Biography of Emily Dickinson.”) and (Beers‚ G. Kylene‚ Lee Odell

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    Bibliography Emily Dickinson is a well-known American poet. According to Poets.org‚ she was born on December 10‚ 1830‚ in Amherst‚ Massachusetts. As a young child‚ Emily proved to be a bright student. It is mentioned in poets.org that she was educated at Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847 and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847 to 1848. In her opinion‚ her real education took place in the family library. There she indulged herself with Shakespeare‚ Sir Thomas Browne‚ John Keats‚ Robert Browning

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