Although Emily Dickinson is considered one of America's utmost poets, she was not regarded as a key force until the twentieth century when modern readers recognized Dickinson's work as groundbreaking and unprecedented by any of the time. Dickinson was not recognized in the nineteenth century because when she died at fifty-six years of age, only a few friends and relatives knew of the nearly two thousand, of which only 12 were published anonymously, poems that went …showed first 75 words of 1239 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1239 total…f her time as well as that of postmodern poets by about a hundred years, and most see relevance in today's society within her poetry: "Truly, modern man may learn a great deal from the example of Dickinson: that the human spirit may be rejuvenated, amended, and healed by the perception and application of truth and beauty is perhaps the most important legacy Emily Dickinson has bequeathed to a restless and troubled modern age" (Ferlazzo, 151).