Biography of emily Dickinson

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Dickinson was born in Amherst and is an American lyric poet who made haiku like poems of observations and images of everyday life.  Her grandfather who had helped found Amferst college. This allowed her to have a more privileged childhood.  She kept living at home most her live devoting many time on writing poems. In the beginning of her life she mostly only send her poems to friends and her brother for them to read.  Many people say that she suffered from depression and anxiety, probably being the reason she stayed home and worked on her poetry so much. Through her 20s and early 30s she produced over a 1100 poems. Emily lived at home her whole life and never got married, although she did have plans to marry Otis Phillips Lord who had worked with her father these plans were never pursued. Most of her poems were published after her death when her sister found them in the notebooks she had filled over the years.  The first volume with her poems were published in 1890. Only 7 of her 1700 poems were published annoniem while she was alive the rest were all published after her death. They were an immediate success and inspired the modern type of poetry. Se died in 1886 from bright’s disease. She was one of the first poets ever to write so deeply about her feelings of high quality but very little quantity. She is and has been an example to many poets. The literary techniques she used in her poems were mostly punctuation, syntax, rhyme and tone. She also used I in her poems a lot, which was not also herself so she reminded the audience that they could also put themselves in other people shoes and be more open minded to new literary styles. It is hard to define what literary movement she was part of because she did indeed write poems that fitted into the modernism,which was a rebellion against traditional writing and allow poets to write more unpredictable. She also has traits from the realism literary movement so she was actually part of two.  As said realists write about morality, so in her poems you would see a lot of imagery and personification. This shows Dickinson mainly writes lyric poems that focuses on expressing her own emotions or struggles that she experiences throughout her life.