How Did Emily Dickinson Influence Her Poetry

Sometimes certain people like to be isolated and left alone throughout their life. They don’t want to constantly be around new people, and they only want a select few of their trusted friends and family to be around. Maybe because of anxiety, depression, another mental disorder, or they simply do not want the interaction. There is nothing wrong with it, and sometimes good things come out of the isolation and alone time. My author, Emily Dickinson, was alone most of her life, and she kept to herself. Of course she spent some time with family and friends but majority of her life she kept quiet, and she stayed home most of the time. She went to school, and continued her education at Amherst Academy with her goal to get the highest level of education a woman could earn. Schooling there had a major influence on her poetry, especially the science program. However, going to

school there, they had a lot of expectations for her. She didn’t want to be confined by the rules and the expectations she was held to.
Emily Dickinson, like most of us, has gone through some hardships in her lifetime.

These events most likely could have been the inspiration for some of her poetry. She had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, and that is part of the reason why she was alone all the time, and why she turned to writing. She wrote about her feelings and let everything out in her poetry. She wrote about a few of the friendships she shared with people and how she cherished those few. As she got older, her poetry bega to increasingly become better and by the 1850’s, she had been writing the best poetry she had ever written. By the end of the 1850’s, her poetry began to become distinct from each other, almost as if each one had a different voice for the different story that it was communicating. And it gave the poetry character and uniqueness and originality. After Dickinson’s passing, a family member found all of Dickinson’s poetry, and after reading it they wanted to get her work published. They published many, many poems and pieces of work from Dickinson. Only then did she become famous from her

work.
Dickinson met a man named Reverend Charles Wadsworth at some point in her lifetime. They bonded quickly and had a great friendship. He lived in the same town as Dickinson for quite awhile, then later he left town. Dickinson was heartbroken after his departure from the area. There are speculations that these two had a romantic relationship past just the friendship they claimed to have, however no one really knows. After Wadsworth left and Dickinson was sad, there was poetry she had written that is thought to be inspired by the event of him leaving. There are more than one of her poems that people think could have been about Wadsworth. The love and the feelings she had toward him have reflected in her work because the events involving him have been a source of inspiration for new poems. “his departure gave rise to the heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson in the years that followed.” ( Academy of American Poets ) However, there are other possible candidates when it comes to who exactly Dickinson’s sad and heartbroken poems could have been about. At this point no one really knows for sure who exactly was the cause of the more heartfelt and sadder poems were written about or to, but they were definitely influenced by someone because they were very sentimental and they were almost as if you were reading someone's life situation unfold right in front of your eyes because it made you feel all the emotions that Dickinson was going through when she was writing them.
Dickinson was a very quiet person and most of the time she kept to herself. She had mental disorders such as depression and anxiety as well. This made her isolated and lonely, but she wanted that. She wanted the alone time and the satisfaction that she was alone and had her time with herself, whether it be reading or writing or schoolwork, she needed the time to herself majority of the time.