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A 5 page paper looking at the way Emily Dickinson’s reclusive lifestyle affected her poetry. Poems discussed include in “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” , “Further in Summer Than the Birds,” and “I Send Two Sunsets”. Bibliography lists four sources.
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-- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Poe -- nor did she ever attend a university. Essentially, she stayed at home in her little village of Amherst, Massachusetts, taking care of her invalid father
and then, after his death, becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally never went out. She wrote prolifically to literary friends -- Ian Ousby
mentions specifically the novelist Helen Hunt Jackson and the Reverend Charles Wadsworth -- and also engaged in a lengthy literary correspondence with the editor and critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Ousby,
258). But although Dickinson clearly regarded Higginson as a mentor, Higginson did not really encourage her to publish her work, and Dickinson herself seems to have feared that editors would
tweak her quirky meter, rhyme, and word choice. Consequently, she remained undiscovered until after her death. This intensely private, secluded life was bound to reflect itself in Dickinsons poetry, and
indeed it did, most predominantly in the way she regarded religion, nature, and death. Because she cared for the sick and saw so few of the healthy, her poems frequently
dealt with the subject of death. Dickinson seemed to regard death in an extremely accepting way; she did nor seek it out, but she recognized its inevitability and the futility
of struggling against it. For example, the "gentleman caller" in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" -- who is clearly intended to personify Death -- is positively courtly.
He comes almost kindly, interrupting the poets busy life like a visitor whose errand is too important to put off. He comes in a carriage, and our impression from the
end of the final stanza "the day/ I first surmised the horses heads/ were toward eternity" is that the poet does not at first realize who her visitor is and
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