Emily Dickinson's Private World There are poets and writers like Jack Kerouac and Walt Whitman who lived intensely, who hurtled from one experience to the next and sought to capture it all in their poetry and prose. Then there are poets like Emily Dickinson, who possessed such a rich imagination that though she saw no one but her family for the last twenty-five years of her she created some of the finest poetry ever written. …showed first 75 words of 1727 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1727 total…and notice different aspects of her life and beliefs within the poem each time it is read. Dickinson was a unique poet because she was truly able to free herself from the confines of society and live her own life, unfettered, innocent, and free. Bibliography Farr, Judith. Emily Dickinson- A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey:Prentice Hall, 1996 Ellman, Richard and O'Clair, Robert. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. New York:W.W. Norton & Co., 1988.