![]() ![]() Franklin published the first unedited edition of her poetry in 1998.ĭickinson incorporates the themes of nature and of the individual self in “ ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” The poet portrays hope as a resilient songbird that “perches on the soul” (line 2) and lives within the individual. Close friends Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd published the first collection of Dickinson’s poetry in 1890, but the two edited and altered the content and structure of the poems. Dickinson died at the age of 55 on May 15, 1886. An introverted, secluded woman, few of Dickinson’s poems were published during her lifetime. ![]() William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson impacted her writing, as well as Charlotte Bronte and William Shakespeare. ![]() She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for only a year, leaving to pursue her poetry. Raised by her father, Dickinson attended lectures at Amherst College throughout her adolescence, which influenced the subjects of her poetry, especially focusing on nature and on the self. American poet Emily Dickinson, born on December 10, 1830, grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. ![]()
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