Emily Dickinson

All-American Poet Emily Dickinson is the best-known female poet of the English language, and also one of the leading authors in American literature. She was born in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts where she lived a very unusual life. She hardly ever left her house and she confined herself to her room to live in privacy. While in her room, Dickinson created over seventeen hundred pieces of poetry. Her poems are a passionate representation of how she …

…approaching like an attacking army and people fear what is about to happen. The apparently calm day suddenly has "a Green Chill upon the Heat/So ominous did pass" ("Wind" 3-4). <Tab/>Emily Dickinson has contributed greatly to American Literature. Her poems were constructed carefully with her beliefs included incorporated into them. Many of her poems had a theme of death, God, or Nature. Emily Dickinson's works will never be forgotten.