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The Life of Emily Dickinson
Although she lived a seemingly secluded life, Emily Dickinson's many
encounters with death influenced many of her poems and letters. Perhaps one of
the most ground breaking and inventive poets in American history, Dickinson has
become as well known for her bizarre and eccentric life as for ....
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.... thoroughly in her works, death seems to be a dominating theme
through out Dickinson's life. Dickinson, although secluded and isolated had a
few encounters with love, two perhaps serious affairs were documented in her
letters and poems. But, since Emily's life was so self kept and private the
exact identity of these people remains unsure. What is known, is during the
Civil War , worried for her friends and families lives, death increased in
frequency to be a dominant theme in her writings. After 1878, the year of her
influential father's death, (a treasurer of Amherst ....
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